Scuola on the piazza dei cavalieri

The Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa has its headquarters in piazza dei Cavalieri. The school was founded by Napoleonic decree in 1810 as an academic boarding school for university students and a branch of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. The first seat was the Monastery of San Silvestro and the term Normale refers to the norms that citizens had to educate in obedience, to the laws and to the emperor. Over the centuries, the school has had ups and downs, it was suppressed, then reopened and the statute has undergone revisions until 2014, the year that defined the division of the school into three academic structures: the humanities class, the class of mathematical and natural sciences and the Institute of Human and Social Sciences. It is an elite school based on egalitarianism, attended by students from all over the world, which is accessible after an exam. Every year few are admitted, but over the centuries, important scientists, writers, politicians, economists, men of culture have come from this school, who have made the history of our country, such as Tiziano Terzani, Antonio Tabucchi, in addition to the Nobel laureates Giosue Carducci, Enrico Fermi and Carlo Rubbia.

Willem Vandenameele