With the Royal Decree of Vittorio Emanuele II, on 9th July 1876 the first wine school in Italy was established in Conegliano, named in 1936 to Giovanni Battista Cerletti, the first director. During the Great War many buildings of the school were destroyed, which only thanks to the intervention of Professor Michele Giunti was not transferred to Florence, but was rebuilt in the city of origin where it still is and inaugurated by Mussolini.
The institute managed to rise even after the Second World War, consolidating its fame also thanks to professor Luigi Manzoni (to whom a museum has been dedicated, that can be visited in the headquarter), to his experiments on genetics but above all to his crosses, known and appreciated even today. Over the years the school has expanded, now the Campus also includes the Professional Institute for Agriculture, the Agricultural Technical Institute, the University of Padua, the Regional Center for Viticulture, Enology and Grappa of Veneto Agriculture, the Consortia of the DOC of the Province, the Central-Eastern Veneto Assoenologi.
To the left of the central prefabricated building is located the Bottega del Vino, recognizable by the wrought iron sign holding a flask, built by the engineer B. Carpenè in a purely Italian architectural style. Inside there are various sayings about wine that alternate with frescoes of vines, vine leaves and animals. The original building, with the entire body of the school building, was declared a national museum.
