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.