Students from the second and third years of the “IC del Mare” – the Dante Alighieri school in Lido Adriano and the Enrico Mattei school in Marina di Ravenna – visited the Byron and Risorgimento Museums this morning, accompanied by teachers Roberta Angelini, Paola Fabbri, and Giulia Minori.
It was a special visit, strongly supported by school principal Salvatore Metrangolo and by Stefania Beccari, coordinator of the Lido Adriano campus, for two reasons. First, the students and teachers visited the Museums outside school hours, accompanied by their parents, demonstrating a particular and meaningful interest in cultural activities, the Museums, and learning activities on Saturdays, when schools are usually closed. Second, the Dante Alighieri school in Lido Adriano is in a sense an offspring of the Byron and Risorgimento Museums.
When the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna – then chaired by Lanfranco Gualtieri –purchased the palace that now houses the Museums from the Municipality in 2011, the entire purchase price of €3.75 million was allocated to financing a project of major social relevance. The Municipality of Ravenna identified this project as the construction of the Lido Adriano school. The foundation stone was laid in 2018, and the school was inaugurated in 2019.
Today the school is a flagship of the provincial education system, with its 1,153 square meters, special classrooms dedicated to art, music, computer science, and reading, and a state-of-the-art gym certified by CONI, capable of hosting events of regional and national importance. “The school is therefore the simplest and most concrete example of the chain of values that culture can generate in a territory,” as emphasized by Antonio Patuelli, President of the Cassa di Ravenna and creator of the Byron and Risorgimento Museums.
The students’ visit lasted two hours, demonstrating their strong interest in Byron’s life and adventures, as well as in the myths and figures of the Italian Risorgimento, a subject usually studied in the third year. The initiative, strongly promoted by Mirella Falconi Mazzotti, President of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna, will soon be repeated with visits by other classes from the “IC del Mare” schools of Marina di Ravenna and Lido Adriano.
Ravenna, 22 November 2025
Attached: photo of students visiting the Byron and Risorgimento Museums.
