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Gonville and Caius College

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    Price: Free

    Address: Trinity Street

    01223/332 400 www.cai.cam.ac.uk Gonville and Caius College is known simply as Caius (pronounced "keys"), after the sixteenth-century co-founder John Keys, who latinized his name as was then the custom with men of learning. The design of the college owes much to Keys, who placed three gates on two adjoining courts, each representing a different stage on the path to academic enlightenment: at the main entrance is the Gate of Humility, through which the student entered the college; the Gate of Virtue, sporting the female figures of Fame and Wealth, marks the entrance to Caius Court; and the exquisite Gate ofHonour, capped with sundials and decorated with classical motifs, leads to Senate House Passage and the Senate House.