Escola Preparatória de Cadetes do Exército

The coursework at EsPCEx compares to the first year at a regular higher education institution, but with the addition of military subjects.

The Government of São Paulo state agreed to provide the land and fund the construction of the EsPCEx campus in Campinas in 1944.

Under an agreement with the Ministry of War and the state, the architect Hernani do Val Penteado was hired for the project.

"This project is a set of four pavilions, around a huge arms square and, for ease of movement, counting on large galleries in the inner face.

"The Government of São Paulo State led the work on EsPCEx until the covenant stage and then pass it to the Ministry of War.

Contacts made by the then Commander of the Second Army with the State Government resulted in a message to the Legislative Assembly, dated April 29, 1958, transmitting the Law Project number 555.

It authorized the State Treasury to sell, on giving to the Ministry of War, the property for the installation of EsPCEx.

The evaluator of the State, when assessing the Law Project said: "The building was built for military purposes, because its original destination was the installation of a preparatory school of cadets in Campinas.

It was anticipated, of course, a inexpugnable fortress.The Finance Committee of the Legislative Assembly, to give its assent to the donation, wrote: "It is a measure of maximum interest to the Ministry of War and also to our state, in whose territory will be installed an educational establishment for the preparation of future Army officers. "

Public opinion from Campinas rose up against that measure and pressed the government for the permanence of the educational establishment in the city.

They live in a boarding school system, where they receive, besides lessons and instructions, uniform, meals and per diem.

PT is aimed at the student's physical preparation and healthy conditions, to give a transition from the civilian (normally sedentary) life to a cadet's intense routine.