Our 2020 campus tours now take place online – in response to the Covid-19 health crisis – so check out our three videos showing off the three historic campus sites and narrated by our students.
You'll see for yourself the incredible historic and cultural treasure that makes up Luiss Guido Carli University.
Villa Blanc
Villa Blanc is the site of the Luiss Business School. Having undergone a complete renovation to bring it back to its original splendor, this late-1800s jewel of eclecticism was built for Baron Alberto Blanc, Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Crispi Government Administration.
Villa Blanc includes a main house, six smaller villas and greenhouses immersed in a park filled with prized typically Mediterranean plant species. The campus boasts the latest technological innovations for students to study in a truly unique learning environment, all inside a stunning historic setting.
Architects: Giacomo Boni, Francesco Mora, (1895-96); Massimo Picciotto (2012-17)
Address: Via Nomentana 216, Rome
Luiss student voiceover Bianca Maria Piccolo
Villa Alberoni
The original Luiss Guido Carli University campus is situated in Rome's renowned Trieste neighborhood, where Cardinal Giulio Alberoni had placed his country villa back in 1722. Of the original edifices created, today remains only the Tinello, a spectacular circular space set in the middle of the typical 1700s park, where you can still find today a grotto with mythological figures and curious rock formations along with a huge nymphaeum, personifying the River Nile and encircled by small putti representing its tributaries.
The main building we have today was built in 1924 by engineer Francesco Bruno, in a Rococò style, evocative of the late 1600s with its wide staircases, precious marble floors and columns, stucco work and beautiful gilded mirrors.
Architects: Francesco Bruno, Armando Brasini (1924)
Address: Viale Pola 12, Rome
Luiss student voiceover Ludovica Tripodi
Ex Casa di Lavoro dei Ciechi di Guerra
In the early 1990s, Luiss Guido Carli University purchased a new campus site on Via Parenzo to hold the Faculty - later Department of Jurisprudence - where it is still active today. The restyling by Studio Passarelli recouped a 1930s building, that of the Casa di Lavoro per i Ciechi di Guerra built by Pietro Aschieri. It is an important example of modern architecture, one which greatly influenced the Roman construction scene upon its completion.
The floor plan soundly caters to all of the diverse functions that take place around the department, in perfect harmony with the essential aesthetics of the space. Though privy of decorative schemes, its richness is articulated in the simple, grey tone spaces offset by its sumptuous Venetian-style terrazzo flooring.
Architects: Pietro Aschieri (1929-1931); Studio Passarelli (1990-1993).
Address: Via Parenzo 11, Rome
Luiss student voiceover Luigi Aniballi
