The“Vincenzo Lilla”

Upper Secondary School is located in Francavilla Fontana

a small town in Puglia.

The school has approximately 400 students, 17 classes, 23 students on average for each class.

This is a typical classroom in our school.

The subjects studied at our school are

mostly classical: Greek and LatinLiterature, Philosophy and

History, Italian.

But there are also general subjects such as Science, Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Natural Science,

Geography. Also Religion,PhysicalEducation,

Art History and expecially English.

The years at Italian High School are five.

Our school begins with the first two “Gimnasium” years and goes on with the last three years of high school called “Liceo”.

The students attending the first two years are aged 14-15 while senior students are 16-19 years old.

Our school timetable goes from Monday to Saturday (yes, we go to school on Saturday!) and we attend lessons from 8:00 to 13:00 or 14:00 depending on the day and the class.

All of our students go on to university when they leave our school.

Francavilla Fontana is a small townin the south-east of Italy,

halfway between the beautiful Adriatic and Ionian seas.

Francavilla Fontana was founded by Filippo D’Angiò in 1310 and is well known for its numerous baroque monuments and buildings.

The magnificent Carissimo Palace

This is Carmine Gate

Clock Tower

Little square in the old town

This isImperiali Castle

Francavilla Fontana is also known as the Imperiali Town after the princes that ruled the town for about two centuries (1572-1782) bringing the feud to the height of its power and making it one of the major cultural and industrial centres of the Salento area(in the XVIII the town was appointed district capital).

Old town

Clock Tower

After the 1743 earthquake which reduced the Chapel of the Virgin to rubble, the Imperiali family had the Mother Church built on the same spot. This was a very big construction, with the highest dome in the whole of the Salento area.

Mother Church