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The main island of Formentera is 19 km long and is located about 6 km south of Ibiza in the Mediterranean Sea. More specifically Formentera is part of the delimitation of the Balearic Sea, which is a northwestern element of the Mediterranean Sea. Its major villages are Sant Francesc Xavier, Sant Ferran de ses Roques, El Pilar de la Mola (on the La Mola peninsula), La Savina, and Es Pujols, the most important tourist destination of the island. North of Formentera is located Espalmador (in Catalan: Illa de S'Espalmador), the second largest island of the Pitiusas Islands, surrounded itself by a few minor islets.

Formentera is a Spanish island located in the Mediterranean Sea, which belongs to the Balearic Islands autonomous community (Spain) together with Mallorca, Menorca, and Ibiza.

Moreover, Formentera is the smallest and most southerly island of the Pityusic Islands group (comprising Ibiza and Formentera itself, as well as various small islets). It covers an area of 83.24 km2, including offshore islets. In 2011, the population was estimated 10,582, while, according to the Census of 1 January 2021, it counted 11,891 inhabitants. San Vincenzo is an Italian commune in the province of Livorno, a Tuscan town in central-Italy. San Vincenzo is located about 100 km southwest of Florence and about 50 km southeast of Livorno.

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San Vincenzo is an Italian commune in the province of Livorno, a Tuscan town in central-Italy. San Vincenzo is located and about

Geography
San Vincenzo is located on the Ligurian Sea, about 50 km southeast of Livorno and about 100 km southwest of Florence, in the part of coast which stretches from Livorno to Piombino, also known as Etruscan coast (in Italian: Costa degli Etruschi). The town develops on the Maremma livornese and it is bounded in the north by the comune of Castagneto Carducci and in the south by Piombino and the Rimigliano Coastal Park.

Notable people
Walter Mazzarri, a football coach, former manager of Watford F.C. and former football player, was born in San Vincenzo in 1961.

Monuments and Landmarks

 * Rimigliano Coastal Park
 * Chiesa di San Vincenzo Ferrer
 * Torre di San Vincenzo
 * Torre Vecchia

Recognitions
San Vincenzo is a seaside resort. In 2006 it received its first Blue Flag, a prestigious recognition for its clear water, and it kept receiving it also in the next years, from 2007 to 2023.

Torrevecchia
Torrevecchia (meaning "old tower" in Italian) may refer to some places in Italy:


 * Torrevecchia Pia, a municipality in the Province of Pavia, Lombardy
 * Torrevecchia Teatina, a municipality in the Province of Chieti, Abruzzo
 * Torre Vecchia, a coastal tower in the Italian comune of San Vincenzo, Tuscany.

Notable people

 * Giancarlo Landini, professor of Italian literature and high school principal at Collegio Rotondi.
 * Lorenzo Colombo, former student at Collegio Rotondi and racing driver.

Collegio Rotondi is Italy's oldest charter school. It was founded with a bequeathment made by the Italian nobleman Giovanni Andrea Terzaghi in 1599.

Central quadriporticus
The quadriporticus, in Italian quadriportico, is the center of the scholastic life of Collegio Rotondi. This part of the building was erected in the 18th century. The yard is surrounded on both floors by a series of marble columns, except for the entrance side on the second floor. The two orders of columns create two logge, used by both students and professors to shift from one side to the other of the building. In autumn and spring it provides shelter from the rain and in summer from the sun and heat. Since its construction this space has been used for didactical aims.

Lower loggia
In the 19th century several tridimensional maps were added on the walls of the lower loggia for didactical aims. Only one exemplar representing Italy is currently preserved. The others were removed in the second half of the 20th century to build new windows and guarantee more brightness to the classrooms located in the lower level of the quadriporticus.

Upper loggia
The walls of the upper loggia were decorated with a series of twenty-four pictures representing some of the most significant characters of the Italian culture, called ' spiriti magni'. Every figure is portrayed in statuesque poses inside a painted niche, at whose base are reported their names. The characters wear the typical garments of their corresponding era and are pictured together with the objects that represent them the most. The cycle of paintings had a didactical aim: it was used by the professors to show and instruct their students about the significant contribution made by the portrayed characters in the Christian-Catholic formation.

The choice of the figures to be represented was carefully designed by the commissioners. All of the  'spiriti magni' are Italian citizens, enclosed in the scientific, artistic and literary context, and have lived between the 18th and 19th century, except for two of them, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, considered ubiquitous as the fathers of the Italian Literature. Giovanni Boccaccio, as well as other historical characters such as the poet Giacomo Leopardi or the musician Giuseppe Verdi, were not selected by the commissioners of the cycle of paintings due to their anticlerical and atheistic position towards the Church of Rome.

Location
Collegio Rotondi is located in Gorla Minore, a small town in province of Varese, Lombardy. The school can be easily reached by foot, due to its proximity to the center of Gorla Minore, and by car or by bus coming from the neighbouring villages.

In the 1599 Gorla Minore was governed by the Terzaghi family, native of Milan.

During his rectorship, Don Giovanni Re wanted to build a chapel, the so-called Cappella dell'Immacolata, to provide Collegio of place of worship. The initiative was taken in 1885, as a marble memorial table inside itself reports. Since then, all the rectors were responsible for its preservation. In the post-war period, Don Lino Mangini renovated the structure and enriched it with new artwork. Don Carlo Crotti modernized it by removing the baroque balustrade. This renovation process directly connected the nave with the altar.

The stained glass windows on the walls were added in the 1970s and are decorated with the representation of the seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church.

The ceiling is richly decorated by stuccowork and by the representation of Saint Charles Borromeo, founder of the Oblates, and of Aloysius Gonzaga, protector of the youth, in the act of adoring Our Lady with her child Jesus.

Above the altar is located a big painting, representing the Canonical coronation. Virgin Mary's crown of stars was added during a ceremony in the presence of Pope Paul VI.

The physical representation of the crest of Collegio Rotondi is located inside the Cappella dell'Immacolata.

Chiesa di San Maurizio
The first historical evidences regarding the Chiesa of San Maurizio are reported in the "Liber notitiae Sanctorum Mediolani" written by Goffredo da Bussero and dated back between 1290 and 1310. They state that the church was owned by the Terzaghi family and over the years it went through several architectural changes and improvements, especially in the first half of the 18th century. In 1784, a new campile was erected and a second bell was added; in the same period, the interior part of the building was modified, including the apsidal area and the decorations.

During the 19th century, the Chiesa of San Maurizio was used as a subsidiary chapel of the church of Gorla Minore.

In the 20th century, rector Monsignor Rossi restored the campanile, the facade and the frescoes in the internal part of the church, due to their degradation caused by humidity. Additional restoration works, were made after WWII and in the 1970s, when rector Monsignor Lino Mangini extended the facade of the building and realized a crypt under it. It was used as a sepulcher, in which some of the benefactors of Collegio, including rector Mangini himself, and some descendants of the Rotondi family were buried.

During these works, some frescoes were discovered: some are located in the apsidal area and present the typical features of Baroque, while the other two are along the central nave and respectively belong to the Middle Age and Renaissance. The first fresco represents the Martyrdom of Saint Agatha, while the second one a Saint with episcopal vestments, maybe Saint Ambrose.

The inside is adorned by other baroque elements, including floral motives, angels and a chorus of putti. On the wall over the altar there is a plate of polychrome marble, itself enriched by a big altarpiece representing Saint Maurice, in Italian San Maurizio, from which the church takes its name. It is also possible to admire four pictures, realized by the Ligurian painter David Beghè, representing the Martyrdom of the Saint.

The bell-tower is characterized by a simple architecture, realized in bricks, stones and wood, granting its integration with the surrounding buildings.

The bell tower is characterized by a simple architecture of the surrounding buildings, realized in bricks, stones, and wood.

The secondary education level has a duration of three years in which students continue learning Italian, English, music, art, and motor science. Other subjects included are history, geography, mathematics, science, and technology. They can also learn a third foreign language, choosing between Spanish and German.

For improving their creativity and art are offered also extracurricular activities; in the last year children are introduced to the the study of a third foreign language (Spanish or German), to have a base for the secondary school.

Students are offered to participate in extracurricular activities like music and theatre classes, as well as to sport courses.