The current school known as the Balbi Valier College was established in 1832 by Count Girolamo Maria Balbi Valier, who founded the ‘Balbi Valier’ Pious Institutes here. The Balbi Valier family had already started up charitable works in the city of Venice, where they were originally from, creating the first nucleus of a city hospital for the chronically ill.
In Pieve di Soligo, the Balbi Valiers dedicated themselves for almost a century to the care and education of young orphan girls through the Istituto Femminile di Carità (Women's Institute of Charity), reserving a substantial income from their estate for it. During the 20th century, the family wanted the women's orphanage and hospital complex to be entrusted to a female religious order.
Entrusted to a female religious congregation at the end of the 19th century, in 1906, at the behest of Countess Marta Gradenigo Balbi Valier, the complex began to take care of pre-school children and became the first nursery school in Pieve di Soligo. In the following decades it also became a secondary school serving the citizens and, at the end of the 20th century, also a high school. Even today it is still a renowned school in the province.
