National Lyceum (Liceu Nacional), also as Paulo Freire National Lyceum (Liceu Nacional Paulo Freire) is a lyceum located at Avenida Marginal 12 Julho, São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe. One of the leading educational institutions in this small African island nation. The students of the university are known to participate in World Meteorological Day.
The lyceum (secondary school) is located on the seafront, just the north of the former Taiwanese Embassy and Hotel Miramar and southeast of the National Library of São Tomé and Príncipe, it is also located near the USTP's High Institute of Education and Communications.
The university is named after a Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, it may be the first building in the nation named after a Brazilian including a great in literature.
The building architecture is made up of colonial neoclassical architecture.
At the lyceum entrance has a sentence written by Paulo Freire "Onde quer que haja mulheres e homens ha sempre o que faze rha sempre o que ensinhar ha sempre o que aprender".
Coordinates: 0°20′19″N 6°44′26″E / 0.33861°N 6.74056°E