
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM
UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA
L' Ateneo più antico del mondo occidentale
Palace Poggi, constructed
in 1549 on plan of Pellegrino Tibaldi. In 1711 it was
acquired from from Bologna Senate and, three years after,
center of Sciences.
From the 1803 university it left the Palace of the Archiginnasio
and one moved in Palace Poggi.
The courtyard of Palace Poggi remembers that one of
Palazzo Farnese to Rome; to the center is the statue
of Ercole, by Angelo Piò.
