College Saint-Michel
The Collège Saint-Michel is a Catholic-inspired Matura school located in Fribourg. Formerly a Jesuit college founded by Petrus Canisius in 1582 and then reserved for boys, it is currently a mixed, bilingual institution run by a predominantly lay faculty of 1,300 students. The school once had a boarding school which for several centuries welcomed students from all over Switzerland and even from abroad.
The church beside the building was built between 1604 and 1610 and was designed according to the plans of the Gesu Church in Rome (1568). The bulb-shaped roof is probably the first of its kind in Switzerland.
Collège Saint-Michel
Rue Saint-Pierre Canisius 10
1700 Fribourg
+41 26 305 41 20
