UNESCO passport Erasmus+ project 2018-2020

Croatia 8th - 13th April

8th April, Milano Malpensa: our experience begins!!! We are exited

We're just arrived at the airport

We are at the airport, waiting for our flight to take off, and talking about the project and our new adventure!

Our flight is taking off: we see the Alps from above, and it's a wonderful sight!

We land in Frankfurt

We are in Split now!!!

The walls of Diocleziano's Palace in Split

Inside the walls

The Peristyle

Walking through the streets of the ancient city

9th April: Split and Hvar

This morning we enter Diocleziano's palace through the Silver Gate

During the 7th Century the Mausoleum where Diocleziano wanted to be buried was transformed in a Cathedral. The Dome lost its mosaics and a bell tower was built near the entrance of the Mausoleum

A dragon on the bell tower

A model of Split helps us to understand how the city changed through the years

Our guide explains us that Diocleziano controlled even Egypt, from where he took 12 statues representing the Sphinx: this one was beheaded when Christians arrived in Split ... we found the head of a Sphnix inserted into a wall of the city ...

Our guide leaves us at the Golden gate, near the statue of Grgur Ninski

We are ready to take the catamaran

We're travelling to Hvar by catamaran

We arrive at Hvar and meet our partners!

9th April, 7 30 pm: we participate in the welcome event in the loggia of the City

The headmistress of Hvar Osnovna Skola welcomes us

The Mayor of the City dances a traditional dance for us

Traditional dance and Klapa music

10th April: first day of activities

We walk along the docks and we finally reach the school: this is the view from the window

All the delegations present their Countries and cultures

10th April: first activity, lace making

We learn how to make a lace

In the afternoon we visited Grad Hvar

Firstly we hadve the possibility to enter the local Theatre, which will officially reopen in May

After that we visit the Benedectine Monastery, where a community of six nuns lives

They are specilized in lace making. . .

. . . their work is amazing!

Visiting the city we discover that it has been ruled by the Republic of Venice for many years and that's why many words of the local dialect are so similar to Italian, as the word "piazza"

We are on our way back to school: what a beautiful landscape!!!

And this is what the view from the computer lab looks like today

We finally play a game and make a consideration about our day

11th April: first activity, working with spices and essences

We now take part in a workshop and use mediterranean spices to produce different kinds of oils or salt

Then we play a game: we have to recognize spices or essences: origan, rosemary, immortelle, sage and lavander

decorating a cookie

we are decorating gingerbread cookies, expressing our creativity

This has been judged as one of the best decoration of all

And Davide decides to eat his own masterpiece ;)

Netting the fish

We are waiting for the boat that will take us to Palmizana but we don't like being alone and we ask our new Spanish friends to join us!

We are in the boat now, waiting to leave

We are now trying to catch fishes but they prefer swimming in the water of the Adriatic Sea!!!

While in Palmizana little island we record a very short video to send to our mates in Italy: it will be shot this night during "Maino's got talent" final show! Enjoy the video!

Olive oil cream

Producing a cream is so simple: just take wax and extra vergin oil, make them melt together and mix them

Here we are: this is the perfect cream to soften and protect our skin!

Canva

We learn how to use Canva to produce a leaflet about the Mediterranean Diet but it has been a long day and we need a rest...

See you tomorrow in beautiful Hvar

13th April: a visit of the island

We climb up the hill of Grad Hvar to enjoy the beautiful view from the Spanish fortress

Velo Grabljie

Velo means "big": we are in Big Grabljie, a village where only ten people still leave. In the past people modified the territory and built drystone walls to create terraces to cultivate. Unexpectedly lavander grew here and became one of the most important products of the island. Three big fires destroyed crops over the past few years

Stari Grad Plain and Stari Grad

In Stari Grad Plain we visit this ancient bulding, which can either date back to 2,400 or 500 years ago: the construction tecnique has never changed along that long period, so it's difficul for us to know!