Col·legi Maristes Valldemia

Col·legi Maristes Valldemia (English: Valldemia Marist College) is a Marist school for children in Mataró, Catalonia, Spain. The school's origins can be traced back to the Catalan Academy at the Can Miralpeix (English: View-of-the-Fish Home) New School at the Country Manor, founded in 1856 by Hermenegild Coll i Valldemia; some time later it was given to the Marist Brothers. The school was founded with the objective to provide a modern education, comprehensive and Christian. Thirty one years later, in 1888, the school acquired its current location on Carrer Sant Josep, in a building that later became known as the Valldemia School of Mataró.^[1]

The school received its first international recognition at the Paris Exposition of 1900, a Gold Medal, in recognition of quality education. During the convulsive years that marked the Spanish Civil War, Valldemia was converted into a hospital and blood bank.^[2]

Today,^[when?] the school has 1200 students from ages 3 to 18, who are taught by a staff of 90 teachers.

References

1. ^ Joaquim Llovet, Mataró: dels origins de la vila a la ciutat contemporània (2000), ISBN 84-923896-2-1
2. ^ Manuel Cusachs I Corredor, Collegi de Valldemia 1855-1888: Dels inicis al seu traspàs als Germans Maristes (2006), ISSN 0212-9248

External links

• Col·legi Maristes Valldemia - Mataró — official homepage; fails without web plug-ins