Palermo

A quiz and curious things about Palermo: Have fun!

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Palermo walking tour (1)

Here is a guide for a walking tour in the interesting city of Palermo:

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A review of our stay in Salemi and welcoming of our partners to Tavira on April, 16

Last December, our students from classes 12º A2 and 12º A3 spent a fantastic week in Salemi.
A short review of our stay there is reminded in these photos we chose to display on the lobby of our library last February.

We now give a warm welcome to our partners who will be visiting Tavira and other places of Portugal from April,16 till April, 20.
We hope you will enjoy as much your stay as we did ours.

Exibition: Italian Films

Some photos of the exibition «Italian flms» on the lobby of our library:

Exibition: Remarkable Italian films

Under the Project “All roads lead…home”, an exhibition with posters of remarkable Italian movies is taking place in the library lobby.

The project “All roads lead...home” is part of the communitarian programme Comenius and it has been developing students, teachers and cultural references exchange from each of the involved partners, Salemi and Tavira.

One of the activities for cultural promotion includes the research work about each of the countries. In this case, teacher José Couto, with the collaboration of his students, made a study about the Italian Cinema and chose twelve representative movies of the seventh art and the Italian culture.

The original Italian posters in size A3 give us a retrospective of one the most important European cinematographies, which include directors like: Vittorio de Sica, Rosselini, Visconti, Fellini, Bertolucci, Benigni e Moretti, among others.

( translation  from the original post in Portuguese by Susana Nassa, English teacher)

Post in Portuguese

 

A typical day of an italian student

Salemi ITC F.sco D'Aguirre

One of the best tourist accommodation structures in Italy

This PowerPoint Presentation is about one of the best tourist accommodation structures in Italy.

You may see it here

Salemi ITC F.sco D'Aguirre

Different types of tourist accommodation in Italy.

This PowerPoint  Presentation illustrates the different types of tourist accommodation in Italy.


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Unesco sites: Piazza Armerina (En)

Piazza Armerina

The modern town lies 721 m above sea level. The fertile territory has been inhabited since the 8C – 7C BC, from the Greek age to the Roman and byzantine ages and throughout the Middle Ages.

The Roman Imperial Villa del Casale

The groups of buildings which make up the Villa are the most notable archeological testimonies of Roman Sicily. The house, situated in the fertile valley of the River Gela, was build between the end of the 3C and the early 4C AD in the middle of a vast rural latifundium. The villa enjoyed its maximum splendour from the 4C to the 5C AD. The latifundium consisted of a rural village and of a number of “mansiones” (farms) where slaves and “procuratores” (procurators) apllied themselves to exploiting the fertile land. The rooms, peristyles, arcaded courtyards and thermae are extremely interesting to visit for the splendid and incomprable series of figured and ornamental mosaics entirely covering the floors of the buildings. 

Unesco sites: Noto and Syracuse

Noto

Ancient Noto was situated on the Meti hill, 152m above sea level. It was inhabited in prehistoric times, as testified by the numerous necropolis and substantial archaeological. The ancient Neai witnessed a considerable developpement under Hieron I. In Roman times, it became a “civitas foederate”. After the Byzantine age it was conquered by the Arabs and raised to the status of capital of the Val di Noto department, becoming a rich stronghold of Muslim power and Sicily. Under the Normands and the Swabians it was a city of the royal domain, it enjoyed considerable economic and commercial prosperity. In the 16C and 17C the transformation of the medieval town began, but  it was suddenly interrupted by 1963 earthquake.

SYRACUSE

Archaeological investigation has found human traces dating from as early as the 14C BC on the Island of Ortygia, the great city of Syracuse was to be founded in the 8C BC. In a 70-year period led to the foundation of three colonies: Akrai, Casmene and Camarina.

The Greek theatre: Hieron II had it built on the site of a pre-existing theatre whose history is associated with Aeschylus of Eleusis, the first of the great Greek tragedicians, Epicharmus the Syracusan, father of Greek comedy, and their contemporaries Phormides and Deinolochus.

The Ear of Dionysius: this artificial cave, 65m long and 23m high, was given its name by Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio, he visited the Latomie del Paradiso and the cave.

The Temple of Apollo (Apolloyon): It is considered the oldest Doric peripteral temple in Sicily. It measures 58.10x24.50m with 17 columns on the long sides and 6 on the fronts. The cella was divided into isles by two rows of double-order columns.

The Cathedral (Duomo): the Christian basilica was built in the 7C on the site of the pre-existing temple of Athena. Ten Doric columns of the temple. The Cathedral façade was rebuilt in 1725-1753.

Unesco Sites: Agrigento

Agrigento

The Agrigento area was inhabited since prehistoric times. The Aeneolithic settlement of Serraferlicchio has made it possible to identify and date a particular indigenous “facies” of prehistoric Sicily through the discovery of a large quantity of well-made poterry with black decorations on red background.

The valley of the templs

Steps lead up to the sacrificial altar, preceding the east front of the gigantic olympieion. The temple, based ona  very ingenious and innovative design, was built after the Agrigentine and Syracusan victory over Carthaginians. For the majestic propotins, it is considered to be the largest temple in the western world together with temple G at Selinunte.

The temple of Concord

 

is one of the best preserved Doric temples of the ancient Greek world. Its perfect state of conservation is due to the fact that it has continued to be used in the course of the time; it was trasformed into a Christian basilica by the Agringentine Bishop Gregory. 

Unesco sites: Aeolian or Lipari Island

Aeolian or Lipari Islands

The Aeolian Islands, “the seven sisters” all share the same quaternary volcanic origin and where formed as a result of the millenary accomulation of eruptive material and raising of the sea floor.

Only two volcanoes off the vast original system are still active today.

Archaological investigation has continued ever since 1946 thanks to the soprintendenza ai beni culturali (cultural heritage Authority). Excavations have suggested that the settlements in lipari, from the 4^th millenium BC onwards, might be the result of migratory flows from the sicilian coasts,on account of decrated pottery in the style peculiar to the so-called Stentinello culture found on the mountainous spurs of lipari. After various greek periods civilitations began in 580 BC, where the cnidians, back from Pentathlus' unsuccessful expetidions, landed at lipari and founded the colony. Until the roman conquest, lipari followed the fortunes of sicily in the wider contest of the secular struggles among greeks, carthaginians and romans to gain the control of island.

In 836 A.D the arabs destroyed lipari and it was only under Roger,Norman Count of sicily from 1083, that the island and the archipelago revived, also thanks to an active group of benedictine monks who founded a monastery on the ancient acropolis by norman decree.

Comenius Bilateral Project - Tavira Salemi 2010 -2012

It is always a pleasure to remember happy days, so here we linked a video about the first exchange Tavira - Salemi held in December 2010:

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Exchange Tavira /Salemi, December 2011

Last December, two classes from our school, 12 th form, A2 and A3, made a school trip to Salemi, in Sicily, as they are enrolled in a Comenius Bilateral Project: All roads lead …home.

From December,11, to December, 18, the students visited different places, first in Bergamo, Italy, then in Sicily, where they went to historical sites in  Salemi, Marsala, Erice, Segesta and Palermo.

Click on the video below, edited by our Sicilian partners, and you may see many photos of the exchange Tavira / Salemi.

We are now looking forward to have our partners here in Algarve next April.


Read the same message in Portuguese. Cick here

Ana Cristina Matias (librarian teacher)

Welcome to Portugal italian boys

O intercâmbio Salemi - Tavira proporcionou trocas culturais e novas amizades.

The exchange Salemi -Tavira allowed cultural exchange and new friends for our students.


Assista ao vídeo seguindo o link / Watch the video by clicking on the link:


VIDEO

Exposição - Tavira de Visita a Salemi (Sicília)

Um grupo de 21 alunos do 12º A1, acompanhados por três professoras, viveram doze dias intensos na Sicília.
Esta é uma apresentação electrónica que permite rever os trabalhos elaborados para a Exposição Fotográfica sobre essa experiência de intercâmbio.

Intercâmbio Tavira - Salemi em BD

A professora Maria Antonieta Couto captou muitos momentos da visita que os alunos do 12º A1 realizaram a Salemi no mês de Dezembro. Eis o artigo que foi publicado no jornal da nossa escola na sua edição de Abril de 2011.

Open publication - Free publishing - More comenius

Recantos da minha terra - Tavira

Retrospectiva da exposição e dos trabalhos, em aguarela, concebidos pelos alunos da turma de Artes, 12º E, sob a orientação do professor Reinaldo Barros.

Intercâmbio Tavira-Salemi (de 8 a 19 de Dezembro de 2010)

Salemi, na Sicília, foi o destino de um grupo de 21 alunos do 12º ano A1, e das professoras Anna Alba Caruso, Antonieta Couto e Suzi Vicente, da Escola Secundária 3EB Dr. Jorge Correia – Tavira, que os acompanharam de 8 a 19 de Dezembro de 2010.

O intercâmbio com 23 alunos da Escola F. D’aguirre, levado a cabo no âmbito do Projecto Comenius “All roads lead… home”, traduziu-se em doze dias de intensa actividade na Escola e fora dela, com uma programação elaborada nas vertentes culturais, patrimoniais, gastronómicas, lúdicas, dando-nos a oportunidade de conhecer esta e outras cidades sicilianas, como Palermo, Trapani, Marsala, Taormina…, sempre num profícuo desenvolvimento das suas capacidades nas línguas italiana e inglesa, numa partilha de experiências que os encantou e marcará para a vida, e que irá cimentar nestes jovens o espírito europeu.

O alojamento proporcionado pelas famílias dos parceiros italianos, verdadeiros embaixadores da sua cidade, será lembrado para sempre. Embora o frio e a neve nos tivessem feito companhia durante a estadia, serviram de boa moldura à atmosfera natalícia que nos rodeou.

Dias intensos que culminaram numa festa de despedida, organizada por professores, alunos e Encarregados de Educação, em que saboreámos mais uma vez as iguarias sicilianas.

O adeus das famílias que acolheram os nossos alunos ao longo destes doze dias ficará para sempre na nossa memória. Para minimizar a dor da separação tentámos que fosse breve, mas queriam prolongar um pouco mais a sensação de estar ainda na companhia dos seus novos amigos.

O nosso agradecimento pela dedicação e carinho demonstrados por alunos, professores e pais. Claro que assim qualquer despedida é difícil e as lágrimas aparecem com facilidade. Todos nós adorámos e agradecemos. Todos fizemos amizades duradouras, e voltámos para casa com uma nova visão de mundo e maior compreensão de nós mesmos e da nossa própria cultura.

De 1 a 10 de Abril, é a nossa vez de receber os alunos italianos, acompanhados pelos professores responsáveis. Só esperamos poder proporcionar uma estadia tão rica e gratificante como a experimentada, contribuir para o alargamento dos horizontes dos alunos participantes, numa perspectiva de educação integral da dimensão humana e de cidadania europeia, e que fiquemos todos a ganhar enormemente, completando, assim, os objectivos previstos no programa do Intercâmbio Escolar.

Intercâmbio com Salemi

21 alunos  do 12º A1 acompanhados pelas professoras de Português, Antonieta Couto, de Física e Química, Suzi Vicente, e de Italiano, Anna Alba Caruso, estiveram em Salemi durante 12 dias, entre os dias 8 e 19 de Dezembro.

21 studenti di 12 classi di A1 sono state in Salemi accompagnati da insegnanti di Portoghese, Antonieta Couto, Fisica e Chimica, Suzi Vicente e Italiano, Anna Alba Caruso, sono stato em Salemi per 12 giorno, tra i 8 e 19 Diciembre