GREECE
Flows of Life: Immigrants and Refugees in Search of an Identity
Mobility 6th/12th May 2023
Embedded Files
On 11th May we work at the school: while students create Kahoot games divided in international teams, teachers meet for the last time. We pay visit to the local folklore museum and take a short trip through the city and go back to school to have the final lunch together and say goodbye to everyone
ICT classroom
Artistic staircase
The garden
Teachers meeting
Kahoot game
The winners receive a small prize
Through the city
The local folklore museum
The old Kallikrateia near Istanbul, from where refugees came from when eradicated from Turkey, to Nea Kallikratea in Greece: a trip to a new life
The final feast
International food prepared for us by parents
The choir
The dances
On 10th May the international group moves from Thessaloniki to the South and go to Chalkidiki, to Nea Moudiana, to Afytos and finally to Nea Fokea. Then we arrive to Nea Kallikrateia and go to the beach to play a little bit
Bye bye Thessaloniki
Center of Byzantine Cutural in Chalkidiki
The center for restoration: paintings ...
... ancient books
Discovering the rebellion of Chalkidiki gainst Turkish Empire in the XIXth century
Symbols of the revolution
At the entrance of the Fisherman Museum in Nea Moudiana
Meeting the Mayor is quite an interesting experience: he explains why many cities or villages are called "Nea", which is a very common prefix here. So we discover that in 1923 Greece and Turkey signed the Losanna pact deciding on the forced transfer of Greek people from Turkey to Greece and of Turkish people from Greece to Turkey. When the refugees arrived, new cities were built: all of them have the prefix "Nea"
The Italian team with the Mayor (German teacher enters the picture)
Wonderful Afytos!
The local Folk Museum
Greek students dance their typical dance in the centrale square
Tower in Nea Fokea
We eat gyros in Nea Kallikratea
On 9th May the international team meet again in the morning and go to Arnaia, a traditional village where we visit the Orthodos church dedicated to S. Stephen, discover the local architecture and the rural life of the past. In the afternoon, we're ready to present traditional games and dances and to explain how we like spending our free time (to be continued)
The day begins like that
We arrive at Arnaia and can see the typical architecture
Chruch of S. Stephen
Folk Museum
Best moment of the day for the teachers: a taste of Greek Coffee
Austrian team
Portuguese team
Greek team
German team
Italian team
All together
On 8th May students meet partners to discover the city of Thessaloniki: we flank the ancien byzantine walls, then visit S. Nikolaus church and "La Rotonda": once a Greek Temple, then a christian church, a mosque then a christian church again. We stand near the Arc of Galerio and see the ruins of the Galerio palace. Finally we visit the Archaeological Museum and go up the White Tower. To have fun we take a pirate boat tour
We b egin our tour from the upper side of the city to the lower one
Byzantine walls
S. Nikolaus Orthodox Church
La Rotonda
Galerio's palace ruins
The visit to the Archeological Museum begins
The Erasmus group outside the Museum
A model of "La Rotonda" and ...
... the beautiful byzintine mosaics
Ataturk birthplace
We climb up the White Tower
We dance tarantella on the top of the Tower
We are on the top
We take a boat tour on the bay
Teachers at dinner
We go back to the apartment
On 7th May we have time to discover Neo Risio village and then go to the city center and walk around
Going to the Church of the Transfiguration of Christ
When we arrive to Thessaloniki city center we are hungry and go to the famous Modiano market to eat typical food: the gyros is delicious!
Then we walk along the coastal line
and enjoy modern art
The Arc of Galerio was bilt in occasion of the victory on the Persian empire and now is an important meeting point in the city
The Arc and, in the background, "La Rotonda"
The fascinating "Ieros Naos Panagias Dexias Church: it has been built in 1956 though the internal decoration imitates the ancient byzantine style
the coast by nught is woinderful!
On 6th May 2023 the last group take off to live its exeprience in Greece: students are flying to Thessaloniki and then will go to Nea Kallikratea for the last mobility of the project (under construction)
Before leaving to Greece Italian students meet to prepare the activities for the mobility: they focus on traditional dances and songs
Here you can read a description of the mobility to Greece e-journal for the mobility to Greece
Here you can find some more photos of the mobility photos of the mobility to Greece
Page updated
Report abuse