ALHAMBRA IS GREEN

Trees of the Alhambra have been threatened for years by the DED. In years 90 2,000 trees from this pest have been gradually sustuido by other species were lost mainly

The entire set of vegetation acts lung and carbon monoxide filter, thus protecting the monument from pollution, which in recent years has been reduced by the restrictions suffered traffic at the bottom. All this makes possible the existence of a microclimate conditions of humidity, temperature and luminusidad that the forest has changed, and these are much lower than those that would apply to the area without the presence of vegetation. But the exuberance of the forest would not be possible without water, in the monumental set is not only an aesthetic but essential for the survival of all vegetation sense and therefore the monument. Fountains, waterworks, streams, and even channeling groundwater is essential for the protection of all forest monument set

Sustanaible route around Nazari Palaces, Alhambra, Granada

Nazari Palaces are a palace complex, the residence of the kings of Granada. It beings to build Alhamar founder of the dynasty in the XIII century. These palaces enclosed within its walls refinement and the delicacy of the last Hispano-Arab governors of Al-Andalus, the Nazari. Three palaces form this complex:
  -The Mexuar
  -The Palace of Comares, or of Yusuf I
  -The Palace of the Lions, or of Mohammed V

We are going to enter leaving the left the "Patio de Machuca" towards Mexuar room, by which we enter them under a beautiful home build by Muhammad V. Then we eill see the small Patio Mexuar (also known as Fourth Gold), which served as liaison between the palace and Comares.
                                                   

Through a corridor, we reach to "Patio de los Arrayanes o de Comares" where we can enjoy the vegetation anround it, and then we get to the "Salón de los Embajadores" where the throne of the emir was. 

Finally, through a side door of the courtyard and a narrow and beautiful corridor, we reach the new Moorish palace: "Patio o Palacio de los Leones", the private residence of the emir whose quarters the royal harem was.

Opinion Essay about our travel in Trento

Our exchange to Trento, Italy, was a great experience, and we are grateful to the institute and to the European Project for making this activity possible. We had been living with italian students, sharing their houses, sometimes their own bed-room, and learning a new lifestyle with other customs a little bit different from Spain. 

First of all, respect to the tourist visits, many people think that there were many days which we are "alone" in some places and we didn't take advantage of the time. It is clear that maybe some days we saw few things and we had overly free time, but during that time we always enjoyed all the moments spending time with our italian friends, and taking photos with them. In my opinon, not everything is meassured in the amount of places you visit per day, but rather to appreciate what you are visiting, and whatever you do and enjoy the trip beeing with your mates. 

I disagree with the organisation of the travel, because teachers told us that one day we had to do something and inmediately, they changed their decision, so it was big problem because some days we did not know what we were going to do. In addition, we were one day in their high school, and it was boring because we did not nothing.

In conclusion, we believe that the experiencie was amazing, we share great experiences with italians and with their families and also we have de oportunity to see very beautiful and ecological places, and also the opportunity to know a autonomical city. 

NATURAL SCIENCES'S MUSEUM AND GIANNI CAPRONI AERONAUTICAL MUSEUM TRENTO.

In 1964 the Museum of Natural Sciences, administratively linked to the autonomous province of Trento, that from 1982 moved its headquarters in Sardagna set.
During the nineties and 2000, the museum is modernizing the organization of interactive exhibits and conduct research. In this phase also the museum expands incorporating other facilities located in the Province of Trento as the Alpine Botanical Garden and the Terrace of the stars, in the Monte Bondone, the museum of piles of Lake Ledro, the Aviation Museum Gianni Caproni, the Geological Museum of the Dolomites in Predazzo and limnological station lake Tovel. In 2006, moreover, the museum in the center of Tanzania established ecological monitoring and environmental education Udzungwa located within the Udzungwa National Park.


On 27 and 28 July 2013, the new headquarters opened the museum named after Muse - Science Museum in less than eleven months after its opening, has reached the threshold of 500 000 visitors, making it one of the most visited museums in Italy.
The building, designed by internationally renowned architect Renzo Piano.


The building was built according to the techniques that ensure energy conservation and environmental sustainability, which earned him the recognition of the LEED gold certification

The Gianni Caproni Aeronautical Museum, founded by the Trentino aviation pioneer Gianni Caproni, exposes the first aviation collection in the world, formed in the twenties of the twentieth century. Since its early years, Gianni Caproni decided to keep within its workshops some of his most important planes, instead of proceeding to their disposal and re-use of materials for other buildings.
This choice, in 1927, he developed the foundation of the Museum. Reopened at Trent in 1992 and subsequently inserted in the network of science museums belonging to the MUSE-Science Museum at the Museum Gianni Caproni it works to promote the dissemination of historical and aeronautical culture at all audiences, with permanent exhibitions and temporary, educational activities for schools, cultural activities offered to the public, the scientific publishing.

Castello del Buonconsiglio

It is a castle located in the center of the italian city of Trento, in the Trentino-Alto Adige. Currently it is converted in an historical museum. In the castle was the residence of the prince-bishops. It has an unique original nucleus of the XIII century and next to that is found the Great Tower. It was overhauled in 1475 with Venetian Gothic style. There are also cells of soldiers who fought for Italy in First World War, and they were shot in the castle moat. They stand on the Eagle Tower the fresh named "Twelve Months" international Gothic of the XV century.

 

Catedrale di San Vigilio (Duomo)

Better known as "Duomo" or "Catedrale di Trento" is dedicated to San Vigilio, patron of the city.
It is an imposing Romanesque-Gothic building built between the XII-XIII centuries. It is accompanied by a bell tower built in the XVI century. There are funerary monuments and remainis of the frescoes in the XII and XV centuries in the trasepts. In the crypt remains on the early Christian basilica of the VI century and the subsequent restructuring during IX and XII centuries.
It became important during the Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563, where the Counter was supported. It was the time of Prince Bishops, as Cristoforo Madruzzo.

Palazzo delle Albere

Alvear Palace is a villa-fortress built in the XVI century by the Prince Bishops Madruzzo Trento.
The building is named after the double row of poplars that in the past, were lined up along the avenue leading from the city to the village, through the "arc of the trhee doors" at the entrance of the road.
The building is square, with four towers at the corners of 6 square meters wide and 20 meters high, and is surrounded by a moat.
In the center of the roof it was present originally a small square tower now destroyed. Even many frescos of the palace were lost.

Monuments and Museums in Trento, Italy

In this part of our blog, we are going to show you some cultural interesting places of our next destiny, Trento.

Jorney to Barcelona

The trip will consit of visiting the capital of Catalunya, Barcelona. The trip will be on Friday 20^th May, and the arrive on Sunday 22^th May (by plane). It will be a weekend to enjoy in family the best places in the city.

   -1^st day: Road to Barcelona.

-Output from Granada at 8:00h.

-Arrival at the airport at 8:20, baggage check and embarkation time at 10:00h with Iberia.

-Arrival to the hotel, Senator Barcelona, near to Camp Nou. Then, free time and have lunch at the hotel with a buffette.

-16:00 o'clock: visit to the Sagrada Familia, Cathedral of Barcelona, and the centre of the city.

-At the end, arrival to the hotel and have dinner there (free time).

2^nd day: Port Aventura amusement park

-8.00-9.00h: Breakfast at the hotel.

-9.30h: Output from the hotel to Port Aventura by train (12€ per person, 48€ in total).

-10.15h: Arrive to the amusement park. All day enjoying free time there.

-00.00h: Get back to the hotel.  

3^rd day: Capital route and get back to Granada

-8.00-9.00h: Breakfast at the hotel.

-10.00-13.30h: Go out to Barcelona centre. Visit to the Güell Park and Aquarium.

14.00-15.30h: Have lunch in the mexican restaurant “La Rosa del Raval”, where there are menus around 10€.

-17:00h: Arrival to the hotel and going to the airport.

-19:00h: embarkation

-20:00h: Arrival to Granada

· COSTS:

-Plane: 400€ adults, and 170€ childrens (go and arrive).

-Hotel: 80€ per person and night.

-Port Aventura: 37€ per adult and 18€ per child.

-L' Aquarium: 18€ per adult and 13,5€ per child.

-Güell Park: 7€ per adult and free for childrens.

       TOTAL: 1.397€

Survey Italian visit

1. Many students said they participated in the activities indicated that they agreed with everything they did. Moreover no one said they disagreed totally with the project, so we concluded that it was a success.

2. In this case we see has also been good relations between the Italian and Spanish students. It caused people to integrate with us.

3. In this graph we see how many people were disagreement on this topic.

On the one hand many people thought they had difficulties and moreover others believed that it was not difficult

4. In this case many people claim they had fun and got along well with the Italians. No one complained about the project and all agreed

5. In this case no one thought that the subjects were difficult to understand therefore the explanation was a success and development of these

6. Here people think that it was easy to get along with the language and had little problems with this. Many Italians speak Spanish very well

7.They agreed that the outcome of the project was good except some small percentage that disagreed. But overall the project was good for many of them

8. All but a few people said they were confident that the project favored their learning and we use many means both technological and otherwise

9.They agreed that the work was hard and to prepare the work lasted a long time and many classes even took part in house

10. Here, people have divided opinions as many believed they did not learn much vocabulary perhaps because most of the time talking in Spanish with Italian

11. Group work, which is always difficult was pretty good on this project if we see the graph as many said they had been working well with others.

STUDY AND TRAVELLING FOR AN ENVIROMENTALLY FRIENDLY PROMOTION

Hi everybody, it is our last year in Bachillerato, and in this year we are going to do Selectividad in June, at the end of the classes which finishes in May. In this course we have to study very hard because the next year we will go to the University, so this is the decisive course. So, for this year we hope pass all the exams and have good marks for the end of the year.

In April, we are going to go to Trento, we will see all friends who came to our high school last year. In this interchange, now we are going to know the Italian culture, and we are sure we will learn a lot of interesting things. They are brilliant persons and brilliant students, and we have similar aspects in common with them.

We will stay installed in their homes, not in accommodation. That factor makes we improve our English's level to communicate with them, due to the most of them only know a few Spanish and we will have to use English as common language.

In conclusion, this Interchange is a great experience for us. Thanks to that, we are going to know other country (Italy), to learn a new culture, new costumes that probably are not similar than in Spain (for example the schedule). We and the rest of students are excited and looking foward to see each other again.  

The last entry about Integrate Project. "The farewell"

This year, the Integrate Project's objetive was improve the expression in English, and of course we have  obtained it! 

As the project was treating largely, on our wonderful city, Granada, we have learned therefore more enough on it, though we have had very few time to do it (only an hour a week), and we have had to work in our house too.   

We improved our capacity to work with the computers, because the Integrate Project needed that we created one blog, and in it during this year we had to put some information like our hobbies,

our biography, our experience with the Italians, one delicious... So, we before could not use this type of tools (the blog) and we have finished being almost a few experts. 

Nevertheless, sometimes the task has turned out to be a bit boring, because always consisted on write an entry, so we think, Project could be more interactrive and funny. Also, normally we have had problems with the connection to Internet or the computers' performance. 

In our opinion, we have worked a lot, day after day, improving our capacity to work in pairs and to organise between us. We deserve to a good mark, because we have work a lot and we were fulfilling all the objectives for day (except when Internet was not working). 

To end, we think our teacher should put us a 10 for up half of our ratings. 

Positive experiences about the interchange with The Italians

In our opinion, we think that the experience has been very positive, in a first moment we did not think that the experience would be amazing.
In our case, we showed Italians the most beautiful monument, the best place to visit in Granada, The Alhambra and we were explaining the most part of it, as the Carlos V Palace, Lions Curt, Vela Tower, etc.
Stay ten days with the italians, have improve our English for comunicate with them, and we think to know new people of other contries, is something very special, interesting and amazing.
We stayed with them few days and we went to other sites here in Granada, and we think that they were
happy. Then, the rest of the days, we knew them better and made friends.which we were always.

On the other hand, the negative part is that we loost a lot of time of study and we had exams, so it was difficult to share the day in all these work.

QUESTIONS ABOUT TOURISM IN GRANADA

GRANADA TOWNHALL

-Which activities organize Granada Townhall for teenagers?

DIPUTACIÓN

-What places are interesting to visit, in addition to Alhambra and Albayzin?

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM BUSINESSMEN ASSOCIATION

-Where are some hotels for stay in Granada that are not very expensive and near to the touristic parts of the city?

-Could you give me a list of good restaurants in this town?

ALHAMBRA TRUST

-How much is it a visit of the Alhambra all day?

-How many palaces are in the Alhambra in total?

SIERRA NEVADA NATIONAL PARK 

-How much is a day doing activities in Sierra Nevada with all inclusive? 

-What activities can we do in Sierra Nevada?

→ MORE DIFFERENT QUESTION 

-Which is the most visited province in Andalusia?

-What important events will there be in Granada, between 14^th and 23^th April?

-Which enviromentally-friendly routes cant townhall offer?

-Is there any enviromentally-friendly tourist project in Granada.?

-Has Granada got many green spces for tourists people to visit?

-How can the cheap cost of lodgnig affect hotels and hostals?

-How many jobs does tourism create in Granada?

-How many people visit the Alhambra every week?

ALHAMBRA ROUTE

-NAZARI PALACES
They are a group of small palaces with a series of structures surrounding them born of a purely transitory and ornamental need. Since the XVI century, these Nasrid palaces has been designated as Old Real House to distinguish Christian buildings.

These are some of them:

-Palacio Real 

-Cuarto Dorado

-Palacio Dorado

-Palacio de Comares

-Patio de los Arrayanes

-Torre de Comares

-Palacio de los Leones

-Sala de los Mocárabes

-Sala de los Abencerrajes

-El Harén

-Sala de los Reyes 

-Sala de las dos Hermanas

-Palacio de Carlos V

-Patio de la Reja

-Jardines de la Daraza

-Baños

Here are some photos of the most important of them. 

Palacio de Carlos V

   Patio de los Arrayanes

 Baños Árabes

 Patio de la Reja

  

 

 Patio de los Leones

 

Torre de Comares

 

Diego's hobbies

Well as you know, one of my hobbie is sport in general. I like sports because it encompasses many activities, but my favorites are paddle tennis, basketball, water polo and football. I usually play football and paddle more often than other sports. In the paddle I am really good and I play with my neighbors, my father, my uncle and friends.
I also like video games. 
My favorite game is the Fifa because it is about football and that is something I love.
I also love hanging out with my friends, when studies leave us. We usually go to the cinema, go play basketball, go to dinner...  It depends of the day.
I love watching my football team all their matches, for me the Atleti is the best in the world and my favorite player is Fernando Torres.
Besides all that, I love being with family and enjoy it.

Andrea's hobbies

My favourite hobbie is dance. I have danced since I was six years old in the school of Regional Dance of Granada. In this group, I have learnt how to dance flamenco, fandangos, sevillanas, jotas, jotillas, etc... I love dance and move with the rithm of the music.

Another that I like to do is play tennis and voley-beach. Tennis is so fun, I like run to catch the ball.

Voley-beach, is also so fun. I like playing it with a lot of friends in summer, without shoes and jumping and running so much. 

In my free time, I usually go out with my friends, and we sometimes go to the cinema, to the sport-center, to eat something, to the swimmingpool (if is summer) and something like that. 

When it's rainning, I like go to a house with my friends, and see a film, eating chocolate, baubles... We laugh a lot. 

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Delicious

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INPHOGRAPHY(ANDREA)

SUBJECTS OF MY DEGREE: AN INPHOGRAPHY (Diego)