Liceo classico Cavour
| Liceo classico “Cavour” | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1568 |
| address |
Corso Alessandro Tassoni, 15 |
| place | Turin |
| Metropolitan city | Turin |
| Country | Italy |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 4 '40 " N , 7 ° 39' 21" E |
| carrier | state |
| student | 950 |
| management | Maria Clelia Zanini |
| Website | www.lcavour.edu.it |
The Liceo classico Cavour is the oldest grammar school in Turin and one of the most traditional high schools in Italy . The humanistic high school named after Camillo Benso von Cavour is located at Via Alessandro Tassoni 15, near the Bernini metro station . It also has a branch in the Santa Rita district , not far from the Olympic Stadium .
history
The history of today's Liceo Cavour goes back to the Collegio dei Nobili founded in 1568 by Emanuel Philibert of Savoy . At this of Jesuits led Ritterakademie about three centuries, the nobility and later upper-class elite of the Duchy of Savoy and then the was the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont trained. In 1787 the Turin Academy of Sciences moved into the original school building . The school came to 1931 in a Carmelite - Convention under.
After the occupation of Piedmont by Napoleon Bonaparte , the school was named Liceo , based on the French model . Victor Emanuel I restored it in its previous form in 1818 as Reale Collegio Maggiore and temporarily entrusted it to the Jesuits again until it came under state control in 1848. With the Education Act of 1859, an eight-year high school was introduced in the Kingdom of Sardinia, from which the Kingdom of Italy emerged in 1861 . The five-year lower and middle school was called ginnasio , the three-year upper school was called liceo . In 1865 the former Collegio Maggiore was named after the late Piedmontese and Italian Prime Minister Cavour, and in 1874 all school levels were grouped under the name Liceo Ginnasio . Even in united Italy, the Liceo Ginnasio Cavour remained one of the best and most prestigious schools. Until the turn of the century, it rarely had more than 350 students.
The grammar schools introduced (or renamed) in 1859 were exclusively humanistic or old-language high schools. In 1911, the more scientifically oriented Liceo Moderno was introduced in Italy , from which today's Liceo Scientifico emerged in 1923 . At Liceo Ginnasio Cavour in Turin, a Liceo Moderno was set up as a school branch in 1911 . To distinguish it from this, the previous upper level was then called Liceo Classico . In 1931 the school moved to a new building on Via Tassoni, where it is still today. From 1940, the first three classes of the lower grades of grammar schools and technical schools were founded into the new middle school ( scuola media ), which is why the Liceo Ginnasio Cavour lost three grades. As with all humanistic grammar schools in Italy, grades 9 and 10 retained their old numbering IV and V in the middle school. In 1986 a branch was set up in the Santa Rita district.
Library
The Liceo Cavour has a library with around 30,000 volumes and a collection of old scientific instruments.
Alumni
The many prominent Liceo Cavour alumni included former President Luigi Einaudi and former Archbishop of Turin Agostino Richelmy .