State Artistic High School of Porta Romana and Sesto Fiorentino.
The Institute, born in 1869 in the Santa Croce district as a "School of wood carvers, cabinetmakers and Legnajuoli", which later became the "Professional School of Decorative and Industrial Arts" in 1880, was transformed in 1919 into a school that could respond to requests from the territory and the labor market in the field of cultural, artistic and technical training.
Since 1923, with the transfer of the Institute to its current location in Porta Romana, a monumental building within the Parco della Pace, built to house the Royal Stables of the Pitti Palace, and with the reorganization, following the Gentile reform, 'inaugurates a phase of great vivacity on the cultural and didactic level.
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