The story of Urbino and of the Montefeltro family, fully pervaded by the Renaissance atmosphere, is inextricably tied to the five centuries old “Carlo Bo” University, one of the most ancient in Italy. It was 1506 when Guidobaldo, Federico’s son, established the Urbino College of Doctors; in 1507 a seal by pope Jules II allowed the Urbino School of Education to laureate Law, Poetry and Medicine doctors. In this cultivated city, the campus buildings merge into the surrounding Nature, perfectly joining the precious urban structure of Renaissance Urbino. Nowadays, the University boasts an international dimension: more than one thousand of its students, i.e. about 7% of the total, twice the average national percentage, come from abroad because of the excellent hospitality Urbino always reserved to young people who come here to develop and forge their minds. It is a great and prestigious accomplishment for the city, where last year the number of enrolled students grew to more than fifteen thousand, exceeding even the resident population.
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