Lycée Français d'Alicante
School
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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 | |
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Liceo Francés de Alicante | |
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| Location | |
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 | |
| Information | |
| 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
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
- Liceo Español Luis Buñuel, a Spanish international school near Paris, France