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The Piast Gymnasium in Brzeg – former Gymnasium Illustre Bregensis – was the second Latin gymnasium in Silesia, where youth from the Kingdom of Poland, Bohemia, and German lands were also educated. The school was established in the second half of the 16th century from the foundation of Duke George II, modeled on a similar educational institution in Złotoryja. The designer of the edifice was the Italian architect Jakub Parr. Latin, Greek, Hebrew, theology, philosophy, dialectic, rhetoric, music, grammar, and general principles of law were taught there. The school possessed one of the richest Silesian modern library collections, the so-called Piast Library, where, among others, the medieval manuscript legend of St. Hedwig, called the Lubin Codex, was stored. The school building was set on fire by Soviet soldiers in 1945, after the end of hostilities of World War II. Its reconstruction took place in the 1960s. The Renaissance gate of the school with a vault and the gate portal have been preserved to this day. Practical information: The facility is generally accessible. Paid parking at 5 Żwirki i Wigury Street [sic - orig. Figury].