Gonzaga High School to Get New Auditorium and Facilities in Castiglione

The Gonzaga High School in Castiglione delle Stiviere will have a new auditorium for the collective activities of its 600 students. This will be the result of an agreement that the Province of Mantova and the municipal administration of Castiglione are finalizing in these days.

During the past school year, students at the upper secondary school site in Castiglione (which hosts a Classical High School, Scientific High School, and the Technical Commercial Institute) had long protested due to the lack of classrooms for teaching activities and the shortage of laboratories and facilities for collective activities.

Last spring, the Province allocated 400 million lire for a project to create four classrooms within the auditorium. These works, already designed, are now in the tendering phase and should be completed by the start of the 2000-01 school year.

This was done under an agreement reached between the Province and Castiglione, in which the Municipality had committed to advance the funds needed for the redesign.

However, after the bureaucratic process for the construction of the four classrooms was technically completed, the two administrations did not stop and took an extra step. They decided to meet the needs of the institute by pooling their resources to build a new auditorium-auditorium hall.

Project and investments

Northern part of the area available to the High School will house a hall capable of accommodating 600 people, with an area of approximately 1000 square meters.

The project also includes the construction of a new road, which will connect the high school directly with via Botteghino, providing a new frontage to the Gonzaga complex and entirely renewed traffic flow.

This road will be built, according to the requests of the municipality, by the owners of an adjacent development project.

The cost of the new auditorium, approximately 1.5 billion lire, will be supported by the province with 1.2 billion (600 million from regional funds and 600 million from provincial levies) and 300 million by the municipality.