Lycée Français d'Alicante Pierre Deschamps (LFA; Spanish: Liceo Francés de Alicante) is a French international school in El Campello, Alicante Province, Spain.[1] It serves maternelle/educación infantil (preschool) through lycée/bachillerato.[2]
| Lycée Français d'Alicante Liceo Francés de Alicante | |
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Main: Camino de Marco, 21 / Camí de Marco, 21 (03560) El Campello – Alicante Picasso School: Finca Barrina - Norte, apt 2 - 16 Carretera de Callosa / Avinguda Callosa D'Ensarrià 03502 Benidorm | |
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| Website | mlfalicante |
As of 2016[update] the main campus, which is adjacent to Villa Marco, has about 1,300 students. This campus is 20 hectares (49 acres) large.[3]
The École française Pablo Picasso, an annex of the Lycée Français d'Alicante, is located in Benidorm.[4] It is inside the Finca Barrina - Norte complex.[5] But closed in 2018.
History edit
The school, which opened in 1962, was established by pied-noir people leaving Algeria.[3] In the aftermath of the Independence of Algeria large numbers of pied-noirs settled in Alicante,[6] leading to the establishment of the new French school.[7]
It was initially inside an apartment building on Calle San Vicente. Until 1965 the school occupied a building in Alicante. That year it moved to a different building in Vistahermosa, Alicante. In 1970 it moved again to Albufereta, Alicante.[3] Several pied-noirs had moved to Albufereta; 65 of them lived there in 1965. By 2001 French-speakers had a lot of influence in Albufereta and French was commonly spoken there.[8]
In 2005 the school moved into its current location in El Campello.[3]
See also edit
- Liceo Español Luis Buñuel, a Spanish international school near Paris, France
References edit
- ^ Home page. Lycée Français d'Alicante. Retrieved on 30 April 2015. "Camino de Marco, 21 (03560) El Campello – Alicante "
- ^ "El colegio." Lycée Français d'Alicante. Retrieved on 30 April 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Histoire"/"Historia / Quiénes somos." Lycée Français d'Alicante. Retrieved on 29 September 2016.
- ^ "Les données de la zone Europe Ibérique Archived 2015-09-25 at the Wayback Machine." AEFE. Retrieved on May 7, 2015.
- ^ "Centros enseñanza." CCI FRANCE ESPAGNE. Retrieved on January 5, 2017. "École française de Benidorm (Anexo del Lycée français d’Alicante) Carretera de Callosa, 16 Finca Barrina - Norte, apt 2 03502 Benidorm "
- ^ Kidd, William. "The Long Good-Bye: Pied Noir Re-Settlement in the Pyrénées-Orientales" (Chapter 2). In: Gemie, Sharif and Scott Soo (editors). Coming Home? Vol. 2: Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962-2009, Volume 2 (EBSCO ebook academic collection). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 18, 2014. ISBN 1443864161, 9781443864169. Start: 33. CITED: p. 38.
- ^ Kidd, William. "The Long Good-Bye: Pied Noir Re-Settlement in the Pyrénées-Orientales" (Chapter 2). In: Gemie, Sharif and Scott Soo (editors). Coming Home? Vol. 2: Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962-2009, Volume 2 (EBSCO ebook academic collection). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 18, 2014. ISBN 1443864161, 9781443864169. Start: 33. CITED: p. 49. (See footnote 34 which refers to page 38)
- ^ Sempere Souvannavong, Juan David. "Les pieds-noirs à Alicante" (PDF; PDF Archive). Revue européenne des migrations internationales. Vol. 17, n°3,2001. pp. 173-198. doi : 10.3406/remi.2001.1800. CITED: p. 189 (PDF p. 20/29), Albufereta identified on the previous page.
External links edit
- Official website (in Spanish)
- Lycée Français d'Alicante (in French)
- Benidorm School, LFA (in French)