LÜBECK 

 On the first day of work, we visited the historic centre of Lübeck. Thanks to this guided tour we got to know the distribution of the city into neighbourhoods connected to the different social classes, the importance of the river in trade and commerce and the political power of the merchants and their influence on the architecture. We stroll through the cobbled streets of the city admiring the beauty of its medieval buildings and visit St Mary's Church, among others. In the afternoon we visited the Hansa Museum, which helped the students to understand the importance of this merchants' association in the history and economy of the city of Lübeck.

·         On the second day, we went to the Geschichtshof Roter Hahn, an area where historical buildings are recreated in a playful and practical way to understand how the first inhabitants of Lübeck lived before it became the Queen of the Hansa.

 On the third day, with the help of the German high school students, we visited some of the alleyways, an architectural feature of the city, which helped alleviate the lack of space during the Hansa years. We were then taken on a tour of three shops selling marzipan, a world-famous Lübeck food speciality, and the museum and tea room in one of these shops. Back at the school we were explained the origin and production process of this sweet, the differences between the products of the three shops and we finished with a tasting and voting for the best marzipan in town. In the afternoon we visited the Willy Brandt Museum and the Holstentor Gate Museum; the former gave them information about the politics of the early and mid-20th century and the importance of this Nobel Peace Prize winner from Lübeck, and in the latter we learned about the city's past economy.

 Lübeck is also known as the city of seven towers, referring to the spires of its churches; we visited several of them. Afterwards we went shopping in an ecological supermarket where the students did their sustainable shopping and then had lunch together in the school cafeteria. It helped them to understand the importance of ecology in Germany.