Private schools in Europe present insights into different global perspectives. The essence of CCI is that challenging learning takes place in the country of the Renaissance --Italy--whose archaeological, historical and art treasures are visited as a formally-instructed integral part of the CCI educational experience. Classroom and book learning, upon which the school places the highest value, are dramatically enhanced when students are learning in the very places where the events being studied happened.
CCI students walk in the same streets, fields, and buildings as the pre-Etruscans; Pompeiians and Romans; emperors and popes; Raphaels and Michelangelos; and in the same footsteps, they are surprised to learn, as resistance heroes and war dead from their own era and nations.

CCI makes its home in Lanciano, an ancient-yet-modern, safe, well-serviced small city of 40 000 in eastern Abruzzo. About 15 minutes' drive to the sand or stone beaches of the Adriatic Sea and less than three hours by bus to Rome, it possesses excellent train and bus service to all Italy and Europe. Unlike many private schools, CCI provides boarding for our students. Lanciano has much to share with them.
The city has carefully preserved many artifacts, fossils and architectural elements from all the eras of its long history. Existing as Anxanum in Roman times, it became trading center and fair in the medieval and Renaissance era. Lanciano fell into the lasting isolation and invisibility typical of Abruzzo and other rural regions, before joining and playing its part in the risorgimento, 19th-century unification under Garibaldi and Cavour, and two world wars of the 20th century. With a friendly, vigorously heritage-conscious citizenry and council, and recent-era government-aided development of industry and tourism throughout the local area to supplement its basic vegetable, olive and wine economy, Lanciano appears amongst the happier and more comfortable of places for living in modern Italy.

At Ortona, a quarter-hour's drive from the school, lies the Moro River Second World War Cemetery. Nearly 1 400 Canadian soldiers and 200 of their Allied brothers-in-arms are buried within it.
As our foremost tradition, CCI recognizes their sacrifice every November 11, in the school's annual Remembrance Day ceremony held in this cemetery. The event is loyally attended by military, diplomatic and political guests of honor from Italy, Canada and Europe.

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