Rome, with its many historical, educational, religious and purely recreational attractions, is chief among the one-day shorter trips, and is visited several times in the school year.
This is just one of the many supervised regular trips which signify the importance of travel as a formal part of CCI education.
But equally accessible day-trip destinations are historic hill towns such as Chieti, L'Aquila and Celano, which all have excellent state museums or castles or both; numerous church and monastery centered towns--Guardiagrele, Fossacessia (San Giovanni in Venere), Casauria (San Clemente degli Abruzzi), Coccullo, Scano, Sulmona (Ovid's birthplace)--; the Adriatic beach towns of San Vito, Vasto, and Pescara (whose beaches front Abruzzo's modern, largest, and busily commercial/industrial city); plus the snow-capped Apennine-mountain ski resorts of Passo Lanciano and Roccarasso, each over 2,000 metres in altitude but only about one hour's bus-ride from the school.

Each CCI semester features two major overnight trips. First is Florence, the greatest Renaissance museum and art city of Italy, with its unique towers and bridges, the beautiful River Arno, museums and palaces such as the Bargelo, Accademia, the Baptistry, Pitti and Uffizi and their unequaled collections of Bernini, Botticelli, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael and uncountably more.

In the same semester CCI visits Pompeii, a complete Roman seaside town petrified--streets and shops, mosaics, frescoes, people--by Vesuvius's eruption of 79 A.D., and patiently unearthed and preserved by archaeologists since digging commenced in 1748. This trip also includes unbelievably beautiful Sorrento town and the Amalfi coast--miles of plunging volcanic rockface densely populated with rich hotels and villas along its summit; then houses, towns, marketplaces and still more hotels thickly clinging down the steep incline; bottoming in the tourist-filled bars, busy docks, and rocky swim-beaches clustered along the warm seashore.

CCI's students visit Naples, a mind-challenging mix of churches and miracles, narrow, choking streets, fender-bending traffic, huge seaport docks, the Museo Nazionale's magisterial archaeological and sculpture collection and the Capodimonte museum's paintings; and Neapolitan architectural gems like the Bourbon Royal Palace, Egg Castle and Castello Nuovo, San Carlo Opera and Umberto Primo mall. This visit opens minds to the fascinating southern-Italy history of conquest, exploitation and revolution, unending through the many ages of taxing rule by Greeks, Romans, Normans, Arabs, Angevins, Bourbons, Garibaldini, Fascists, and Christian Democrats. The Naples experience concludes with a ferry trip to Ischia and/or Capri, so overwhelmingly enjoyable as sun-drenched vacation islands it is easy to forget their histories reach back to the Caesars.
Venice is another mandatory CCI visit. Here a dozen primitive communes clustered on mudbanks of a swampy north-Italy lagoon became the unique city which is an incredible web of a myriad narrow pedestrian streets, beautifully bridged narrow canals, and one Grand Canal. All traffic is solely by gondola, boat, or barge.
Through five centuries to 1508, Venetians made their city a dominant imperial European trading and seafaring Republic of huge wealth and power whose remains are visible throughout the city in exquisite and lavish public squares, monuments, palaces and churches. These won visitors from all over the world during Venice's next four centuries, as she became merely the tourists' Queen of the Adriatic, and the workplace of Palladio, Sansovino, Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese and other art masters who all flourished here after political power had waned, and whose works can be seen--in the inevitable Italian company of Leonardo, of course--in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, the Ducal Palace and many other museums and galleries that keep Venice still today a power, aesthetically.