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Ours school is the one that in the current Genoese landscape boasts the most ancient tradition.

The place of the Liceo occupies the monumental spaces that wind around the sixteenth century "Major Cloister", built by the Minori Osservanti Francescani since, in 1537, they were entrusted with the Church of the Annunciation and the adjoining convent. The cloister, which overlooks some of the current classrooms, has a rustic portico in renaissance forms with some references to the Tuscan tradition, in particular to the architecture of Brunelleschi. According to some attributions, it was built under the guidance of architect Andrea Ceresola, called the Vannone, originally from Valle d'Intelvi.

Probably already the site of a school, in 1808, by Napoleonic decree, the spaces were intended for "Imperial Lyceum" and the school activities continued however until Italian unification, in 1861, when the institute became "Regio Liceo".

The current title to Christopher Columbus was attributed in 1892, the fourth centenary of the discovery of America. On that occasion, the Faculty Board opened a subscription to finance the navigator statue, which is still in the center of the cloister. It soon became the symbol of high school and together with the cloister it helps to evoke the "genius loci" that everyone recognizes as an environment particularly suited to fostering learning and human relationships.

With the so-called Gentile reform (1923), the school became "Liceo Classico", counting among its teachers, during the twentieth century, prominent personalities such as Angelo Marchese and Salvatore Currao. The high school was attended by students who have distinguished themselves in different fields of cultural and artistic life, such as the famous patriot Giuseppe Mazzini, the poet Camillo Sbarbaro, the chemist Giulio Natta, the set designer Emanuele Luzzati, the architect Giorgio Labò, the singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André.

The Liceo Colombo still operates today in the wake of the tradition of classical studies, preserved in this system, in order to provide students with the cultural and methodological tools for an in-depth understanding of modern and contemporary reality. In this perspective, starting from the 2015-16 school year, the Liceo Colombo has flanked the linguistic branch with the classic address.

The first classes of the Linguistic branch are now hosted in a separate building just in front of the town's main soccer playground.

These are the two different places where our school is located.