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COMENIUS PROJECT LIVING BY THE SEA
2nd Meeting – Portugal
24th – 27th March 2010
Organização
AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS
JOSÉ CARLOS DA MAIA, OLHÃO
Friday, 26th
10:00 - Meeting to discuss the Project - all teachers
12:00 - Concert by school children
13:30 - Lunch
15: 00 - Boat trip to Ilha do Farol (Lighthouse island)
16:00 - Visit to the lighthouse
17:00 - Tour of the island
18.15 – Return to Olhão
19:15 - Dinner at school
22:00 - Informal socialising in town
Ilha do Farol
A small hamlet with a long beach offering peace and
quiet in large doses. The lighthouse is 52m high and
the view from the top is pretty amazing.
Saturday, 27th
10:00 - Visit of the town
13:00 - Lunch
Free time for shopping and/or sightseeing in Faro in the
afternoon
Visitors from Denmark and Iceland leave
Sunday, 28th
Departure of the French, Greek, Irish and Latvian groups
WELCOME TO OLHÃO
OLHÃO
The town of Olhão is
essentially and historically
linked to the local fishing
industry and only grew into
existence in the 17th
Century. It has about
30,000 inhabitants and was raised to the status of a
town after 17 local fishermen successfully crossed the
Atlantic Ocean in 1808 in the fishing boat “Bom
Sucesso” without charts, Their
purpose was to announce to
the exiled King of Portugal,
Dom João IV, that the French
invading armies had been
defeated and had returned to
France leaving Portugal free for the King to return.
It was in this town in 1882 that the first canning factory
for tuna and sardines was established. Very soon
canning factories spread along the coast and it became
the leading industry of the Algarve.
Architecturally the town is well known for an older quarter where the flat terraced roofs and straight box-shaped chimneys show a definite Moorish touch.
The fish and the vegetable markets in long building on the waterfront are a "must" to visitors. The walls inside are covered in hand painted tiles.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 24th
10:00 - Oficial welcoming
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - Tour of school and school grounds
12:00 - Teachers visit classes that have adopted their
countries
12: 00 - Lunch (students)
12:45 - Portuguese lesson (teachers)
12:45 - Students depart to Braveland
13.30 – Lunch (teachers)
14:15 - Meeting to discuss the project - two teachers
from each country; free time for the others
15:30 - Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 - Meeting
18:00 - Departure from Braveland (French and Portu-
guese students arrive at school; Danish and Greek stu-
dents go to the hotel)
Braveland Adven-
ture Park
http://www.brave-land.com/
Thursday, 25th
09:00 – 19:00 - Bus trip to several cultural and historic sites
SILVES The origin of this town traces back to some 1.000 BC and it was already a notable place in Roman times. During the Moorish occupa-tion in the early 11th Century it was given the name of Xelb. It became the cultural
centre of learning for the whole Iberian Peninsula under the mantle of Cordoba in Spain. In 1189 it had already 15.000 inhabitants, when the city was sacked by the Knights of San-tiago with support of Anglo-Norman crusaders. The impor-tance of Silves continued under the control of the Portugue-se kings until the 15th Century, when its commerce began to shrink due to the sitting-up of the Rio Arcade, Silves access to the sea.
SAGRES The village of Sagres is situated on Europe's most south-western corner near Cabo de São Vicente.
Due to its position on
the southern side of
the cape, Sagres is well
protected against the
rough Atlantic Ocean
and strong westerly
winds. It was this exposed location that made Sagres the
starting point of numerous expeditions during past centu-
ries. The age of the Portuguese Discoveries began back in
the 15th century, initiated by Henry the Navigator. The For-
taleza de Sagres (Fortress of Sagres), located south-west of
Sagres on a small headland about 1 km in length, is a monu-
ment of national importance. After passing through the thick
tunnel entrance, one sees a giant pebble circle , detected
only in 1921, of unknown age and purpose. The circle with a
diameter of 43m is interpreted as a compass rose (Rosa dos
Ventos). Normally compass roses are divided into 32 seg-
ments, but strangely this one has 40 segments, so it could
also have been a sundial. Most likely it dates back to the
time of Henry the Navigator.