This article examines the Atheneu Sergipense, the main official institution of secondary studies in Sergipe/Brazil, from the perspective of the impressions registered by those who visited it, identifying elements of its spacial strucure, pedagogic processes and objectives. The text reveals, by the words of the visitors, images which are immortalized by the school practices of that formation center of men who projected themselves in the political and intellectual life of the state, as well as of the country.
Atheneu Sergipense; visit book; secondary studies