OMNES VIAE

We wished to found our project on the nexus that linked so many European cities in Antiquity: the Roads. They traversed a large part of the European regions. They communicated cities and provinces. Not only people but also ideas were able to circulate through them. They marked routes for the economy of all times. And they evolved to the current European transport networks. To such an extent they were important that their deterioration caused the isolation of the old imperial provinces and influenced the birth and development of European languages. On them real ravines, railways and roads were created. We have very notable remains scattered throughout the territory between the borders of the Roman Empire. Some of them are seriously damaged and some others remain in good state of conservation. The idea of sponsoring stretches of the Vía de la Plata (western road axis of the Iberian Peninsula) arouse in our school to help understand and protect it; the germ of that idea together with the great willingness of diverse organisms made it possible that an old European project born in Italy revived: "The school adopts a monument", thanks to which hundreds of students, and their families, started out in the study and care of the heritage.

Our plan tried to combine both ideas: to work on the knowledge of the roads together and proceed with their adoption (to make them feel Roads are their own and consider them as a family asset), as a symbol of the protection of a heritage that carved out what the Union European is now. We want to broaden our students´ world to enable them to live first-hand the significance of the Roman road network, visiting the places as far as they arrived in situ in order to know the remains Europe has preserved. We seek to involve the students´ families by inviting them to accompany us along the routes.

We firmly believe that the project was financed because the expanding of this plan and showing it to the rest of the schools can be a great example of how to promote the teaching of what we were and how to take care of the cultural assets that have been left to us, both in families and at schools. Furthermore, it is essential that students from socially disadvantaged environments will be given the opportunity to develop awareness of citizenship and become familiar with the European reality to foster their integral development.

Fortune has allowed us to share this project by finding partners who seek the same goals in Portugal (Agrupamento de Escolas de Soure), Greece (Dimosthenio Lyceum of Peania) and Romania (Cantemir-Vodă National College).

The Project at the school "Cantemir-Vodă National College" (Bucarest, Romania):
https://www.cncv.ro/proiecte-educationale/proiectul-omnes-viae-all-the-roads-todos-los-caminos/

The Project at the school "Agrupamento de Escolas de Soure (Portugal)":
https://www.escolasdesoure.pt/web/erasmus/omnes-viae/