Colegio Antonio Rosmini is an Italian private & religious school in Maracaibo (Venezuela), created in the 1960s by the Rosminians.
[1] The Colegio Italo venezolano "Antonio Rosmini" was created in 1960 in the urbanization "Los Cerros de Marin", Maracaibo, by the catholic missionary fathers Rosminiani Giambattista Zantedeschi, Josito Gattoni and James Connolly.
They started it while associated with the Italian private school "Garibaldi", but in 1966 they created in a huge area of 70,000 square meters the actual big "campus" of the Colegio Rosmini.
It has large areas: huge class-rooms in big modern buildings, lab sections, great library, futbol fields, covered sport utilities, large parking lots, nice church dedicated to S. Francis of Asis, a bell tower similar to the one of S. Mark in Venice that is famous for tourism, etc...(Hoy en día el Colegio Antonio Rosmini, es considerado como uno de los mejores centros educativos de Maracaibo.
The Italian community in Maracaibo made possible the construction of the temple in honor of St. Francis of Assisi.