Euconnectour
5th learning/teaching activity
Gymnázium, Poštová 9, Košice, Slovakia
18 – 23 March 2018

Participants: UK, Bulgaria

Programme:

18 March

• partners´ arrival
• guided tour in the city centre (Part1)

19 March

• Wine route – Tokaj (visit to one of the main wine-growing areas in Slovakia)
• Museum of the Zemplin region
• free time activity

20 March

• Belianska cave
• Visiting a village of „Gorals“ (Highlanders) with its traditional wooden architecture, preserving folk tradition and customs in their museum: national costumes, crafts, tools, presenting traditional wedding ceremony (students and staff´s participation)
• short walk in the historical centre of Levoca town (an urban cultural historical reservation)

21 March

• Visit to the medieval town of Bardejov – sightseeing tour
• walk in Bardejov Spa and tasting the range of natural mineral springs
• Open-air museum of folk architecture
• Wooden church in Hervatov (UNESCO World heritage)

Evening: „Taste our country“ party

• presenting traditional folk dances and music
• presenting and tasting traditional Slovak food
• „tasting“ Slovakia in other ways: painting Easter eggs, plaiting string cheese whips, practising tongue twisters in Slovak language

22 March

• Visiting the school: headmaster´s reception, meeting teachers and students, seeing the premises
• British partner´s departure
• discovering the High Tatras

23 March

• Visit to the Centre for Folk Art Production – presenting traditional Slovak crafts
• workshop: tinkery, glass painting
• guided tour in the city centre (Part2)

24 March

• Bulgarian partner´s departure

//AZ.