Accommodation
Participants will be lodged at Colleggio Borromeo
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It was founded to provide an adequate moral education – in accordance with
the Counter-Reformation atmosphere of that time – to students who were intellectually
talented but financially poor, and therefore unable to enroll at University
of Pavia.
During the XVII and XVIII centuries the college was attended mostly by jurists
who were to hold positions in the government, in the State of Milan and
in the Catholic Church’s administration: Cesare Monti, Federico Visconti,
Giuseppe Pozzobonelli; cardinal-archbishops of Milan such as Marco Arese,
chief of the Supreme Court and highest office in the whole State; Giorgio
Clerici, President of the Senate; 
several bishops and cardinals such as
Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti, an expert of ancient mosaics.
In the years to come, the following students graduated from Borromeo: Pietro
Custodi, associate of minister Prina; Giuseppe Ferrari, representative of
the Republican-Federalist school of thought and protagonist of the “Risorgimento”;
Contardo Ferrini, distinguished teacher of Roman Law and ordained “blessed”
by the Catholic Church; Scipione Ronchetti, Justice Minister during the
governments of Giolitti and Tittoni, presenter of the law on “condanna condizionale”.
The majority
of the University of Pavia Faculty (around 250 teachers, researchers and
doctorate students) graduated from Almo Collegio Borromeo.
In 2009 the Women’s Section was opened, so that equal study rights could
be granted to 50 female students.
and at University of Pavia guest house.
