Liceo classico Cavour

Corso Alessandro Tassoni, 15

The Liceo classico Cavour is the oldest high school in Turin and one of the oldest high schools in Italy. The Camillo Benso named after Cavour grammar school located in Via Alessandro Tassoni 15, near the metro station Bernini. In addition, it maintains in the Santa Rita, near the Olympic Stadium, a field office.

History

The history of the present Liceo Cavour goes back to 1568 by Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, founded the Collegio dei Nobili. At this run by Jesuit Knights Academy and later the noble upper class elite of the Duchy of Savoy and the Kingdom of Sardinia - Piedmont was formed around three centuries. 1787 moved into the original school building one the Turin Academy of Sciences. The school came up in 1931 in a Carmelite convent.

After the occupation of Piedmont by Napoleon Bonaparte, the school was named after the French model as the Liceo. Victor Emmanuel deployed it in 1818 as a real Collegio Maggiore in its earlier form restores and entrusted it temporarily again the Jesuits until they came under state control in 1848. The Education Act of 1859, among others, an eight-year high school was in the Kingdom of Sardinia, from the 1861 eventually became the Kingdom of Italy, was introduced. The five -year lower and middle school was named ginnasio, the three -year upper was called the liceo. 1865, the former Collegio Maggiore after the late Prime Minister Cavour in Piedmont and Italy was named, in 1874 summarized all school levels under the name Liceo Ginnasio. Even in a united Italy, the Liceo Cavour Ginnasio remained one of the best and most prestigious schools. Until the turn of the century they seldom had more than 350 students.

The 1859 introduced (or renamed ) high schools there were exclusively humanist or classical language high schools. In 1911 the more scientifically oriented Liceo Moderno was introduced in Italy, from the Liceo Scientifico 1923 today was born. When Liceo Cavour in Turin Ginnasio you taught 1911 Liceo Moderno school as a branch. In order to distinguish this one called the former high school then Liceo Classico. 1931 the school moved to a new building in Via Tassoni, where it is located today. From the year 1940, the new middle school was founded ( scuola media ) from the first three classes of the lower grades of secondary schools and technical schools, which is why even the Liceo Cavour Ginnasio lost three grades. As with all humanistic schools of Italy but retained in middle school, the grades 9 and 10 their old numbering IV and V. 1986, a branch office was set up in the district of Santa Rita.

Library

The Liceo Cavour has a library with 30,000 volumes and a collection of old scientific instruments.

Alumni

Among the many prominent graduates of the Liceo Cavour included former President Luigi Einaudi and the former archbishop of Turin Agostino Richelmy.