Christina Mifsud, born in San Francisco, California and raised in Hollister, first came to Italy in August of 1991 during her Junior Year at Santa Clara University through Loyola University of Chicago's Rome program. While in Rome, she studied art history and as her journals can attest:
"I studied at the Pantheon - fun again - I also helped
this older American couple with
the Art History behind
the Pantheon - it was great - it also planted the seed
for me - to stay in Rome - or well come back to be a
tour guide for Americans - that would be so much fun!"
(Oct. 5th 1991). Christina returned to Santa Clara University and upon completion of her undergraduate degree in Art History spent the following year in Marseille, France as a nanny in the village of Allauch while studying at the Alliance Française. In 1994, she was accepted as one of seven students in the Italian Renaissance Art History Graduate Program at Syracuse University in the state of New York with the final research and symposium in Florence, Italy during 1995. She has since lived in Florence from January 1995 and worked with over 30 US University programs teaching Art History and in 2007 passed a course and exams to become an authorized Tour Guide for Florence. Christina's Florence Page serves as a way to maintain contact with all of you who have visited Florence and allowed Christina to share her adopted city with you. Each of you have enriched Christina's life and your support of her work has allowed her to continue what she loves to do the most ..... share Florence with others.
