is the Gazouillis kindergarten and the primary schools of Lamartine and St. Joseph. The town has three public collèges for lower secondary education, which are Garibaldi, Jean-Jacques Perret and Marlioz. There are three private colleges under contract namely Lamartine Catholic college, the la Ribambelle college and the Talmudic college. Aix-les-Bains has only one public lycée general, technological and professional which is the Lycée Marlioz, which also offers many post-secondary education qualifications (vocational baccalaureate, BTS notary or trade). In the private sector, non-contract is an established private technology ITCC school and two private schools under contract, namely the Talmudic lycée general and the Tomer Deborah lycée general. There is also the presence of a lycée professionnel under private contract, the la Savoisienne lycée professionnel. The town also hosts other training institutions. Examples include the teaching academic section LPO Marlioz, CLG Marlioz, the Municipal Conservatory of Music and, since 2006, the Peyreffite Graduate School. Cultural events and festivities Several festivals are organised in the town of Aix-les-Bains, with the following being the most significant: The Rock Musilac Festival (July) The Festival Aix Operettes (July) The Festival of Clairvoyance (August) The Festival of Romantic Nights of the Lac du Bourget (October) The Writers in Series Festival (October) (November) The Festival d'Art Lyrique of Aix les Bains (November) Each year, other events also take place in the Aix area such as: The Night of the Museums (May) The Acquascenies (July) The Navig'Aix (August) The Biennale Charles Dullin (November) Health A is located in the commune. It is ranked 16th in the national rank for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The town also has the Queen Hortense for Rheumatology. There are about forty doctors of all disciplines present in the city. There is also the Gustav Zander Centre for functional rehabilitation and care. This is an independent private clinic. Its capacity is 40 beds of complete hospitalisation, with forty day case places. The specialties of this centre are, primarily, for functional rehabilitation and motor rehabilitation, traumatology, orthopedics, neurology and cardio-vascular diseases. It was authorized to increase its capacity with fifteen new beds and 15 additional places. This extension was expected to be operational in 2008. Another institution in the Aix area is the Herbert Clinic (). It has a capacity of eighty-four beds and places of which seventy-five are surgical beds and nine outpatient surgery places. This clinic is for specialty surgery and is particularly