GRANADA'S CENTER

Granada is a beautiful place where you can find important monuments like the Alhambra and where it took place important aspects of the history.

First of all, in Granada you can visit a lot of places like the Cathedral and the Royal Chapel where you can have the opportunity to see the Catholic Monarchs' tombs. Next to the Royal Chapel it's La Madraza Palace that it was an Arabian University. The Alcaiceria was a set of streets that made the market of the silk. This market was very important in the epoch of the Arabian domination. It was next to a mosque that it was destroyed. Nowadays, in the place where it was the mosque, it is Sagrario's church. In addition, it is important too the Corral del Carbon that it was a lodge and a storehouse for the merchants. Furthermore, there are streets with a lot of clothes shops like Recogidas street or Mesones street.

To sum up, I think that Granada is a very beautiful place that everyone have to visit to discover all its monuments and places where it coexisted different cultures like Muslim and Christian cultures. It has a good clime and its location is perfect because you have the mountain and the beach to few kilometres.

                   The Alhambra

Catholic Monarchs' tombs



        The Cathedral

 

TODAY... VERONA!

Verona, is a city stradding the Adige river in Veneto, northen Italy, with approximately 265,000 habitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of northeneast Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona covers an area of 1,426 km2
and has a population of 714,274 habitants. 


It is one of the main tourist destinations in northern Italy, owung to its artistic heritage, several annuals fairs, shows, and operas such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans. 
Three of Shakespare´s plays are set in Verona: "Romeo and Juliet", "The Two Gentleman of Verona" and "The Taming of the Shrew". The city has been awarded "World Heritage Site" status by UNESCO because of its urban structure and architecture.

The days between 25 and 29 of February, we don´t have class. So because of that we didn´t post nothing about what we are doing in class (obviously), but those days we were working on getting more information about Trento and the places we are going to visit.

Today we have an exam of phrasal verbs and start unit 5, that it´s about University and the differents degrees, also the girls who are of practices are helping us in everything they can. 

In adittion, this week we will put information about: Verona, Trento, Venecia, Dolomitas, Riva de Garda and Arco di Trento. 

Bye!

HELLO THERE!

Today we have made some changes in the design of the blog. First, we have changed the backgroung and use a picture that represent our trip to Trento, because as you know we are going to go to Trento the 11th of March.

Then, we changed the title to: Thinking about Trento, because the entries of our blog are about things we will see there and in addition the teacher assigned us the topic of the economy of Trento to explain it to the class. 

We put more pictures to make the blog more colourful instead of boring (from our point of view, obviously).

María will not come to Trento but me (Elena) yes, so we have talk about what we can do to have active the blog from two places (Trento and Granada) and this is our plan:

María will be posting things about what they will be doing in class and me will be telling you the things that we are doing there and posting some pictures if i have internet connection, if not when I came back to Granada I will post it all. 

See you soon!

WE ARE GOING TO TRENTO!

HELLO!
The next 11th (March) the class will fly to Trento!! We are so excited about the travel because we want to see our friends there, we didn´t see them since last year when they came to Spain.
We will be there for ten days and in that days we are going to...

- First day: Trip Granada-Trento. We will be there at seven p.m and we will go to our respectives Italian´s houses
- Second day: Visit Trento
- Third day: Trip to Verona, by train
- Fourth day: Visit and work in "Tambosi-Battisti" high school.  Here is the link to his web for you to know about it (http://www.tambosibattisti.tn.it/it/)
- Fifth day: Trip to Riva del Garda and Arco di Trento
- Sixth day: Work in the Tecnich and economic high school "Tambosi-Battisti" and then we will visit "Muse"
- Seventh day: Trip to Dolomitas, an Italian mountain range that extends to the provinces of Belluno
- Eight day: Work in the high school (Tambosi-Battisti)
- Nineth day: Trip to Venecia
- Tenth day: Day in family
- Eleventh day: We return to Granada about three p.m

Here you have some pictures about the places we are going to visit:

ECONOMY OF TRENTO

The city owes much of its unique economy to its position along the main communication route between Italy and Northern Europe and to the Adige river which prior to its diversion in the mid-19th century ran through the center of the city.
The Adige river was formerly a navigable river and one of the main commercial routes in the Alps. The original course of the river is now covered by the Via Torre Vanga, Via Torre Verde and the Via Alessandro Manzoni.

The share of services (financial intermediation and real estate, public administration, community services and activities of households) in total gross value added is higher than the Italian average.

- Tourism is vital and mostly related to the exploitation of natural amenities, sky resorts, etc.
- The share of agriculture is also higher than average, while the importance of industry is lower than in the rest of Italy. It´s concentrating on valleys.

It exists 862 exploitation dedicated to the ecological agriculture.



The principal activity it´s concentrating in the flats areas and take precendence the smallholdings.
- The most important manufacturing sectors include textiles, materials for construction, mechanics, food processing, paper and wood making.

A FAMILY WEEKEND IN GRANADA

Now, we have to plan another trip but this time it has to be for a family (2 adults and 2 children), for a weekend in the centre of Granada.

We have been looking for some hotels which different prices:
- "Santa Paula" hotel, which has five stars and his price is: 163,90$ per night
- "NH Collection, Victoria" which has four stars and his price is: 129$ per night
- "Don Juan" which has three stars and his price is: 66$ per night
In addition we thought about searching some B&B (bed and breakfast) and we found one that looks good: "Nsc Alojamiento", and it´s only 98$ per night

If the family want (or if they choose the B&B), they can go to any of this restaurants:

-  "Los Patos" in the street: Solarillo de Gracia and the average price is 35$

-  "El agua" in Placeta de Agibe which have fantastic views of the Alhambra

-  "El rincón de Lorca" in the street: Angulo, near to the Cathedral 

Some activities that they can do:

- Visit the Cathedral: 3$ per adult and free for the children

- Go shopping to the shops near to the hotel they choose

- Have a coffee in "El Suizo"

Or whatever they want to do. If they get lost or need some information about any place that they can visit, they have to go to "Palacio de las niñas nobles" next to the Cathedral, and there they will be helped.