Lycée Français d'Alicante (LFA; ) is a French international school in

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Alicante Province Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: / ) is a province located in eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Valencian Community. It is the second most populated Valencian province, containing the second and third biggest cities in the Valencian Co ...

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. It serves ''maternelle''/''educación infantil'' (preschool) through ''lycée''/''bachillerato''. the main campus, which is adjacent to Villa Marco, has about 1,300 students. This campus is large.Histoire

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" Lycée Français d'Alicante. Retrieved on 29 September 2016. The École française Pablo Picasso, an annex of the Lycée Français d'Alicante, is located in

Benidorm Benidorm ( , , ) is a municipality in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Known as the “New York City, New York of the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean”, Benidorm has been a tourist destinatio ...

. It is inside the Finca Barrina - Norte complex. But closed in 2018.

History

The school, which opened in 1962, was established by

pied-noir The (; ; : ) are an ethno-cultural group of people of French and other European descent who were born in Algeria during the period of French colonial rule from 1830 to 1962. Many of them departed for mainland France during and after the ...

people leaving

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. In the aftermath of the

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large numbers of pied-noirs settled in Alicante, leading to the establishment of the new French school. It was initially inside an apartment building on Calle San Vicente. Until 1965 the school occupied a building in

Alicante Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: ''/'' ) is a city and municipalities of Spain, municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean port. The population ...

. That year it moved to a different building in , Alicante. In 1970 it moved again to , Alicante. 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.Sempere Souvannavong, Juan David.
Les pieds-noirs à Alicante

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. '' 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. In 2005 the school moved into its current location in El Campello.

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Lycée Français d'Alicante

Benidorm School, LFA
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