Universita degli Studi di Verona

The housing agency that the Erasmus Student Association at Verona University had links with were unreliable and have so far failed to return any of the huge deposit we left at the start of the year. They are called "For Sale" and are best avoided! The appartment was basic in every way but we enjoyed the year due to it's location 2 minutes walk from the uni and just 5 minutes from the city centre. Also became close friends with the Italian, Spanish, Irish and other British Erasmus students living in the same block.

As my flat was found independently through an agency I don't know much about accomodation. The ESN here are very helpful at the beginning of the year I believe, but by the time we came in February there was little available.

All accomodation is located near the university and are generally around the €200ppm for rent. All have good facilities.

This year the university set up a group of people to help to find accomodation, therefore it shoud be better organised in the following years. It is however hard for foreigners in Italy to get treated the same as locals. In general the rent is higher.

It was a wonderful experience of living with different persons, from different countries. I've got more freinds and thanks to them I enriched my general culture, and I became more social person

With so many Italian students living at home, there is less of a community environment than eg. at British Universities.