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La Laguna, Tenerife
San Cristóbal de La Laguna has an exceptional, universal value due to the concept of its town plan. This historical site is the archetype of city-territory. It is the first example of a non-fortified town, conceived and built according to a plan inspired by navigation, the science of the time. Its layout is based on peaceful new social order, inspired by the religious doctrine of the millennium of the year 1500.
The town map can actually be read as a “stellar map” in which the dots indicate particular points in the city and the links between these points and the town as a whole. It has a symbolic meaning and should be interpreted as a marine map or a map of the constellations of the time. The characteristics of the city of La Laguna, the archipelago’s first capital city, set the tone for the new cities in America. The city is home to approximately six hundred well-preserved original Mudejar buildings and is a living example of the exchange between European and American culture, a culture the city has maintained strong ties with over the centuries.
All of this led the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), to announce, on the 2nd of December 1999, in Marrakech (Morocco), its approval of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in Tenerife as a World Heritage City.
History of Tenerife, Canary Islands
The Canary Islands have always been present in myth and legend, like those mythical lands beyond the Pillars of Hercules in the Strait of Gibraltar, the gateway to the Mare Tenebrosum. Classical writers have placed Paradise, the Elysian Fields and the Garden of the Hesperides here, although one of the first reliable accounts of the islands we owe to Pliny the Elder, in the 1st century AD.
When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Tenerife, the island was divided into nine small kingdoms, or menceyatos: Taoro, Abona, Güímar, Anaga, Tegueste, Tacoronte, Icod, Daute and Adeje, with a king, or mencey, in charge of each, advised by his council of elders, or tagoror. The Guanches, the pre-colonial inhabitants of Tenerife, wore animal skins and, as far as the documented evidence goes, had not dominated the art of navigation. However, they did have elaborate burial rites for their dead, with mummification techniques that proved very effective in some cases. (περισσότερα…)
Erasmus KA210 Eco school Οικολογικό Σχολείο
The main aim of the project is to create an Eco school.
Directorate of Secondary Education in the Dodecanese together with 4 schools, two Greek and two Spanish work together to apply successful environmental practices.
Secondary School of Gennadi Rhodes and 1st Lyceum of Papagou Athens from Greece together with IES Sobradillo and IES Guimar from Tenerife Spain study how to to promote
α) Interventions in the school environment, to create an eco-school as an example of small-scale improvements
b) Educational activities to foster environmental awareness at school and at home
The results relate to the objectives as follows
A) interventions at all partner schools, learning from each other
B) educational activities for environmental awareness in schools that relate with the environmental interventions
C) dissemination and support of similar interventions and educational activities in other schools in the area
