The first secondary school of Cape Verde was established in the city hall of Praia in 1860, but this was already closed in 1862 due to lack of funding. In 1955 a section of the Mindelo-based Liceu Gil Eanes was established in Praia, on Praça Albuquerque. This section developed into the independent "Liceu Nacional da Praia", which was established in its current building in 1960. It was renamed "Liceu Adriano Moreira" in 1962 (after Adriano Moreira, minister of the overseas provinces), and "Liceu Domingos Ramos" in 1975 (after Domingos Ramos, an independence activist who was killed in 1966 in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence).