Liceu Domingos Ramos

School in Praia, Cape Verde

14°55′21″N 23°30′19″W / 14.9226°N 23.5052°W / 14.9226; -23.5052InformationEstablished1960DirectorJosé Augusto Fernandes^[1]Teaching staff110 (2015)^[2]Number of students2,300 (2015)^[2]

Liceu Domingos Ramos is a public secondary school in the northern part of the city centre (Plateau) of Praia, Cape Verde. As of 2015^[update], it has 2,300 students, 63 classes and 110 teachers.^[2] It was established as Liceu Adriano Moreira in 1960. In 1975, at the independence of Cape Verde, it was renamed Liceu Domingos Ramos.^[3]

The first secondary school of Cape Verde was established in the city hall of Praia in 1860, but this was already closed in 1862 due to lack of funding.^[3]^[4] In 1955 a section of the Mindelo-based Liceu Gil Eanes was established in Praia, on Praça Albuquerque.^[5] This section developed into the independent Liceu Nacional da Praia, which was established in its current building in 1960.^[3] It was renamed Liceu Adriano Moreira in 1962 (after Adriano Moreira, minister of the overseas provinces),^[3] and Liceu Domingos Ramos in 1975 (after Domingos Ramos, an independence activist who was killed in 1966 in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence).^[6]

The school is housed in an L-shaped Art Deco building, designed by Luís de Melo, who also designed the 1961 Palace of Justice on Praça Albuquerque in the same style. Its interior is decorated with typical Portuguese azulejo panels, depicting events from Portuguese (colonial) history.^[3]

Notable students

Notable students include:

Jorge Carlos Fonseca, current President of Cape Verde^[7]
Ulisses Correia e Silva, current Prime Minister of Cape Verde
Arlindo Gomes Furtado, Catholic cardinal
José Maria Neves, former Prime Minister of Cape Verde and former PAICV member
Carlos Veiga, former Prime Minister of Cape Verde and former Movement for Democracy (MpD) member^[7]
Ildo Lobo, musician

References

^ "Liceu Domingos Ramos: ano lectivo arranca "dentro da normalidade"". A Nação (in Portuguese). 18 September 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Liceu Domingos Ramos comemora 55 anos" [Liceu Domingos Ramos Celebrated 55 Years] (in Portuguese). Ministério da Educação. 4 October 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Valor simbólico do centro histórico da Praia, Lourenço Conceição Gomes, Universidade Portucalense, 2008, p. 419-438
^ Edifício dos Paços do Concelho da Praia – onde foi instalado o Liceu Nacional da Província de Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). Virtual Educational Museum of Cape Verde. 27 September 2017.
^ Instalações da Secção do Liceu Gil Eanes na Praia (in Portuguese). Virtual Educational Museum of Cape Verde. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
^ Brito Semedo (16 June 2017). "100 anos do Liceu em Cabo Verde" [100 Years of the Lyceum in Cape Verde] (in Portuguese). Esquina do Tempo.
^ ^a ^b Carvalho, Maria Adriana Sousa (org.) (2013). "Memórias do Liceu da Praia" [Memories from Praia Lyceum] (PDF) (in Portuguese). Praia: Uni-CV Publishers.