Our history

Our story dates back to 2004 when the Superciaotour Project Leader, Federica Protti, accompanied a group of Italian language teachers from America on her first exploratory trip to Italy to visit Italian schools and learn about the methods they use to teach English.

Our activities and our commitment have multiplied since that distant 2004; in fact, in collaboration with Studio Arcobaleno we have worked hard in the travel sector and have created hundreds of personalized itineraries tailored to American schools according to their different needs, as can be seen on the site:

www.superciaotour.com

Superciao Tour, Educultural travel made in Italy

Now we are immensely pleased to have created a separate, independent business – Superciao Tour, Educultural travel made in Italy – with an offering of trips featuring truly special activities ranging from all kinds of workshops to visits to places beyond the usual cities of classic tourism, but of fundamental cultural reference, to tastings, sports initiatives, meetings with Italian schools…
Specialized in mass-media linguistic and cultural studies, the Project Leader has organized a methodological-didactic study team and has thus successfully created, developed, and proposed teaching materials for Italian teachers abroad, and especially in the United States, which focus on Italian art, the country, culture, history, all presented according to specific indications and local school programs.

Over the course of nearly twenty years, Superciao Tour’s travel projects and programs have been enriched with a wide variety of experiences, featuring itineraries in Italy and Europe. Travelers with Superciao Tour are also offered the possibility to create their own itinerary based on their needs and desires through consultation of possible destinations, suggestions, and sources of inspiration, along with direct contact with ever-available operators.

The goal of Superciao Tour’s journeys is to immerse travelers in all aspects: cultural, social, emotional, folklore, culinary, linguistic, traditional, through guided tours of cities, museums, monuments, artisanal or sporting activities, daily life, parks and nature reserves, landscapes and historical artifacts, as well as contemporary life, workshops, and activities.

During the time of the pandemic, Superciao Tour expanded its scope to include virtual journeys, which, as much as possible, filled the need for travel through direct connections with Italian cities. An experience of this kind has fostered and continues to foster interest and planning for real journeys, which can be considered engaging previews.

The management of trips is facilitated by a technologically advanced platform that promotes both the organization and participation of travelers, providing opportunities and conveniences such as registrations, payments, monitoring of the programmatic development of the journey, options to choose from, and opinions to express.

Superciao Tour offers various types of travel, including group trips for students, virtual tours, and trips for adults, with special attention to roots journeys. The evolution of skills, organization, and the development of travel programs over these twenty years, along with a deep knowledge of Italy in all its aspects, have also led to the design and preparation of journeys for adults to their family origins, allowing travelers to discover both the past and the evolution of the region they will explore. Journeys back to one’s roots are a flagship addition to what is already in the programming.

Superciao Tour also handles the planning, organization, and management of trips for Italian students, based on the specific requests of their schools, to European countries or other continents, in relation to their study programs.
In particular, besides the logistical and touristic aspects, they also contact local schools that students can visit with the aim of experiencing different realities, establishing potential communication channels between students, comparing habits, and broadening their cultural horizons. They also facilitate possible exchanges between schools when feasible and desired by the schools themselves.

At SuperciaoTour, we believe in redefining how Italian is taught in schools by offering a unique approach: “Travel to learn and learn to travel.” Our educational initiative aims to transform both teaching methods and the travel experience itself.
Introducing Italy Boarding Pass, a comprehensive program designed specifically for Italian classes traveling to Italy. This innovative project brings immense value from every perspective, revitalizing Italian language education, expanding Italian courses, and igniting a new enthusiasm among students and teachers alike.

The year 2024 marks a significant milestone for our company, as we continue to champion the Italian language and culture globally, with a special focus on the United States. With the increasing interest in Italy among schools, especially in light of the 2025 Jubilee, SuperciaoTour has created informative opportunities for all groups traveling to Italy, even those not studying Italian.

In parallel, the growth of student travel to Spain has led to the development of Spain Boarding Pass. This program mirrors our commitment to educational and cultural support for groups traveling to Spain, adhering to our philosophy of “Travel to learn and learn to travel.”
Our online study program, complemented by printed educational guides, opens new horizons for foreign language learning, cultural exchange, and the exploration of new countries. SuperciaoTour is dedicated to broadening perspectives and fostering a deeper understanding of diverse cultures.

In 2024, Superciao Tour introduced a Fidelity Card for teachers participating in our travel or study programs. This card offers a range of opportunities and benefits across multiple areas: teaching, methodology, purchasing materials, and organizing trips.

Superciao Educational

Superciao Educational is a further development and a great novelty in the publishing world, as it focuses above all on Italian culture, also explored through travel, and can easily incorporate moments for learning about and teaching Italian language and culture.
Our multimedia, interactive, online teaching materials let students get closer to all the aspects of our great Italian cultural heritage. The individual Projects have different contents, different situations, proposals ranging among various fields and cultural areas, all however united by a common denominator: the great culture that our company supports both in relation to conscious, educational, and cultural tourism and to the teaching materials that beautifully convey the major themes.

The new Projects launched in 2020 examine a journey through Italy using the travel diaries of some students, who carry out research and seek information with crosswords revealing our Italian treasures, along with the images of some of our most famous artists. This is a first proposal that seeks to combine the field of cultural tourism for which we are distinguished with a student’s preparations, through research, for a journey to come explore Italy, or perhaps simply studies if the journey is still just a dream. For those who have already traveled here, it is instead a matter of consolidating and confirming what was experienced, helping them organize all that they have learned.

Our Superciao Educational teaching materials follow this outline to help build a student’s knowledge. Fully ready, they seek to always be present and at the forefront for schools and beyond thanks to in-depth methodological and didactic research. They will be offered on a regular and periodic basis, constantly evolving thanks to the research.
The authors coordinated by the Superciaotour Project Leader have taught for years; they have always sought to further their knowledge of the best methods for teaching Italian Language and Culture abroad. They are now highly committed to focusing on this new sector: the creation of EDUCATIONAL teaching materials that can perfectly integrate with the travel sector, because in the end traveling is discovering new lands and environments and discovering new languages. Our Italian language, one of the most studied in the world, now finds new support in EDUCATIONAL materials.
2021 will be a further step forward with some new courses offered remotely.
Our new remote learning courses, Italiano senza frontiere and Passaporto per l’Italia, are our new achievements in this regard. The former uses Google classroom and the latter has its own dedicated platform.

Our projects

All the materials have common characteristics that facilitate the transition from one type of material to another; indeed, they are marked and set up with the same functions:

  • interactive activities to be carried out in class or individually;
  • ability to save and print work;
  • a playful perspective to encourage students’ participation and interest;
  • optional support in English for materials for English-speaking students;
  • integration between Language and Culture;
  • exploration of different Italian cultural topics;
  • exploratory dimension;
  • support for independent work and research with materials specially created and provided for consultation;
  • development of all the use skills of the language;
  • use of various linguistic registers with particular attention to daily communication;
  • answers included, where possible;
  • guide for the teacher including indications to support the work, divided into:
    – Language and Culture
    – Teaching strategies and methodology
    – Instructions for use;
  • independent work and its verification;
  • possible coordination by a teacher or completely independent.