Colegio Italo-Venezolano Angelo De Marta is an Italian private school in
Puerto La Cruz (
Venezuela
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).
Data
The Colegio Angelo De Marta has nearly one thousand students. It is located in the metropolitan area "Puerto la Cruz-Barcelona" that has more than a million inhabitants, of which nearly 50000 are Italians and/or
their descendants. It is the second most important Italo-venezuelan school in Venezuela.
The school is an italo-venezuelan ''unidad educativa'' and has "kinder", "elementary" and "bachelor" (or high school) sections, where the
Italian language
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lessons are mandatory.
History
On October 12, 1956, they began the activities in Venezuela the Italian School "Angelo De Marta", with the vision of keeping alive the Italian language for the Italian future generations grown in Venezuelan territory.
Subsequently, on November 25, 1959, a philanthropic group of Italian entrepreneurs of Venezuela began the construction of campus facilities, supported by Mr. Angelo De Marta, consul of Italy at the time, who donated the land where now are the headquarters of the institution. Initially the school was only in Italian language, but in the late 1960s started to be bilingual. Later was created the ''Unidad Educativa Colegio Italovenezolano Angelo De Marta'', that actually has courses of
Italian language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 m ...
even for relatives of students.
The first graduation of the College Italo-Venezolano "Angelo De Marta" was held on September 25, 1971, with the graduation of 29 bachelors of Science and 10 in Humanities. Recently there were the celebrations of the 59th years of existence of the Colegio De Marta
Photos of 59th anniversary
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See also
* Colegio Agustín Codazzi
Colegio Agustín Codazzi is an Italian international school in La Florida, Caracas, Venezuela.
Data
The "Colegio Codazzi" has ''Scuola infanzia “O. Molinari”'' (preschool), ''Scuola elementare “O.Molinari”'' (primary school) and ''Scu ...
* Colegio Amerigo Vespucci
* Colegio Antonio Rosmini
Colegio Antonio Rosmini is an Italian private & religious school in Maracaibo (Venezuela), created in the 1960s by the Rosminians.
History
The Colegio Italo venezolano "Antonio Rosmini" was created in 1960 in the urbanization "Los Cerros de Mari ...
* Italo-Venezuelans
Italian Venezuelans are Venezuelan citizens of Italian descent. The word may refer to someone born in Venezuela of Italian descent or to someone who has emigrated to Venezuela from Italy. Italians were among the largest groups of European immigrant ...
* Italian language in Venezuela
The Italian language in Venezuela has been present since colonial times in the areas around Caracas, Maracay, Valencia, Maracaibo and the Andes mountains. The language is found in many idiomatic sentences and words of Venezuelan Spanish. There are ...
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Italian international schools in South America
International schools in Venezuela