Valencian territory represents ¾ of Belgian territory.

Valencian comumnity has got 5 million inhabitants which is half the population of Belgium.

VALENCIAN COMMUNITY IN EUROPE

Surface: 23.255 (4’6% of Spain)

Population: 5 million people.

It represents 10% of Spanish population.

VALENCIAN COMMUNITY

Serranos’ Tower (Torres de Serranos)

HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

La Llotja

Plaça de la Verge

Quart’s Towers (Torres de Quart)

It is made up of the following buildings: Hemisferic, Oceanografic, Prince Philip’s Museum (of Science), Umbracle and Queen Sofía’s Palace (of Arts).

THE CITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Officially called Queen Sofia’s Palace, it is a place where you can enjoy scenic representations on music, dance and theatre.

Palace of Arts

It is a place where you can see the life of aquatic animals

THE OCEANOGRÀFIC

The animals are from the Arctic , the Antarctic, the Mediterranean and the rest of oceans.

it is a place in which movies can be seen in 3-D. They almost always are about landscapes and about aquatic life where the nature appears.

THE HEMISFÈRIC:

The own experimentation is promoted on different topics.

It’s not the typical museum in which you cannot touch anything, on the contrary, here what is not allowed is to stop touching!

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE

THE UMBRACLE

The Umbracle is the entrance to the City of the Arts and the Sciences.

Bed of the River Turia. The bed of the river that used to cross Valencia is

now the largest park in the city.

The Botanical garden

This is Valencia’s Botanical garden.It is like an urban natural reserve where there is a great

variety of trees and plants which are very protected.

BIOPARC

In this place animals and nature are looked after by specialized personnel.

In Valencia there is a natural zone with a great variety of animals called Bioparc.

Agriculture and gastronomy These are typical products from Valencia

The natural parks of our region are very beautiful and they are special zones on which there are different green ecosystems. Our aim is that these zones exist forever.

There are different places:WETLANDS:▪ L’Albufera: It looks like a lake but it is linked tothe sea.

ISLAND:▪ Las Islas Columbretes

▪ El Fondo▪ Les Salines de Santa Pola

NATURAL ZONES IN THE VALENCIAN REGION

COAST MOUNTAINS:

▪ El Montgó ▪ El Penyal d’Ifac

▪ Serra Gelada

INSIDE MOUNTAINS:

▪ Penyagolosa

▪ Serra Calderona▪ Desert de les Palmes▪ Hoces del Cabriel

Ecosystems destructionUntil recently construction has been on massive scale in Valencia. Although it was good for our economy; this has destroyed very

important ecosystems.

Renewable energies in SpainIn Spain renewable energies are used more qnd more. In

Valencia the wind power and the solar power stand out, though there are others like geothermical energy or the wave one.

In Valencian region there is a power station. The power station of Cofrentes.We have the biggest sun farm in the world in Beneixama.Throughout our region, you can find windmill farms on the top of the mountains.

PaternaPaterna is a small city situated next to Valencia.

Paterna’s monuments

The Calvario The Palace

Paterna’s Tower The

Caves

Ceramics from PaternaThe pottery is the place where, from the 18th century,

there have been created exclusive pieces of ceramics of great importance, known in the whole world.

Urban parks in PaternaPaterna has a lot of green areas. Some of these are the Alborxí’s

park or Tiro Pichón’s park. Alborxí’s park is located just in front of our school, which we have

mentioned before.Do you really think that it is important to preserve the natural parks?

Why?

What we do in E.P. La Salle

Green areasIn our school we have a small green space, where

we plant some plants and we look after them to learn to preserve nature.

RecyclingIn our school we stay more covinced than in other

schools about recycling. In every class there are two bins, one for paper and the oher for waste.

Reflections, campaings and habits

Every morning, before starting the lessons, we reflect for a while about different topics: social reality, Agenda 21, and so on.

Do you do any similar activity in your school?

Comenius projectOur school represents Spain in this project. We carry out

different activities related to the care of our planet to try to enjoy it the maximum time possible. Thanks to this project, some people have come to our school to do a training school year. Last year we had Susann from Germany and this year we have the pleasure to have Sabrina from Belgium.

Fair tradeIn the weeks of fair trade, since 8th of December untill 16th of December. The students from 4thESO sell different products with a higher price than normal products to collect money for poor people.

Agenda 21Agenda 21 is a universal project in which our school

takes part. In this way, we try to raise awareness among students about the environment.

In Spain, there is a contest whose aim is that schools take part in activities related to the consumer’s education, in order to get that children learn to consume responsibly.

Powerpoint made by:

María Rosa Jiménez HerreraLara Mª Juanes MirallesNoelia Pacheco RamónPaula Rodríguez Rodrigo

All the photographs taken of Valencia are done by us. We hope that you have liked this presentation as well as the message that we have wanted to transmit you with

these pictures and the information that we have obtained