Students of every country involved in the project, investigate about European places declared by UNESCO as World Heritage.

In the frame of the Etwinning project " My History is My Pride" students of Azerbaijan , Bulgaria , Romania , Spain and Turkey investigated cultural sites of peer countries and made their presentations.

Great thanks to ...

ADRIANA RÍPODAS AGUDO

Lidia Monica Boje

Magda Martínez 

Ece Erkan / Didem Sarıbaş

Saliha Ali

Natavan Badalova

Research of Azerbaijan on:

Göreme National Park and The Rock Sites of Cappadocia

Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau,

Barcelona

Hierapolis-Pamukkale

Danube Delta

Göreme National Park and The Rock Sites

of Cappadocia

Cappadocia is a historical region in Turkey.The local people call it the eighth miracle of the world.

There are so many underground cities on the Cappadocia area of Turkey but the biggest is Derinkuyu Underground City.These cities made in form of rooms connected to each others some of the rooms were connected to each other only with the tunnels tight and permitting passing of just a person.

Cappadocia has many tourists in a year.

Balloon tour

Cappadocia balloon tour begins every day at sunrise. Balloon tour takes almost an hour.You can take your own flight certificate after tour. 

There are so many cave hotels in the Cappadocia area of Turkey. Old times peoples had made the caves by engraved volcanik rocks for shelters from wild animals. In our times this caves have been restored and are made cave hotels.

Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona

Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul is located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Together with the Palau de la Música Catalana, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This Hospital is a complex built 1901 and 1930. The area of this huge building is 6.74 ha. The designer of this building was a famous Catalan Modernisme Architect Lluis Domenech i Montaner.

It was a fully functioning hospital until June 2009, when the new hospital opened next to it. Before undergoing restoration, In 2014 it was opened as a museum and a cultural center.

Although the hospital's current buildings date from the 20th century, this hospital was founded in 1401 when six small medieval hospitals merged.

The hospital's

former buildings near the center of Barcelona date from the 15th century, and now house an art school and National Library of Catalonia.

In 1991, the hospital was awarded St. George's Cross by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

The last part of the hospitals name, “Sant Pau”, was added in honor of the banker, Pau Gil, who paid the new buildings in the twentieth century

Research of Bulgaria on:

Historic City of Toledo

Wooden Churches of Maramures

Historic City of Toledo

Toledo  (Spanish: [toleðo]) is a city and municipality located in central Spain; it is the capital of the province of Toledo and the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Toledo was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 for its extensive monumental and cultural heritage.

People who were born or have lived in Toledo include Brunhilda of Austrasia, Al-Zarqali, Garcilaso de la Vega, Eleanor of Toledo, Alfonso X and El Greco. As of 2015, the city had a population of 83,226.[1] and an area of 232.1 km2 (89.6 sq mi).

Toledo is known as the "Imperial City" for having been the main venue of the court of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and as the "City of the Three Cultures" for the cultural influences of Christians, Muslims and Jews reflected in its history.

In 1999 the 23 session of the UNESCO 8 of the churches are entered on the list of world heritage sites because of their religious architecture and traditions in the field of wooden construction. They are included in the list under Criterion iv because: "the wooden churches of Maramures are an outstanding example of a traditional religious architecture resulting from the exchange of Orthodox religious traditions and Gothic influences in particular people's interpretation of the traditions of wooden construction, so showing a high level of artistic maturity and craft skills "

Wooden Churches of Maramures

The wooden churches of Maramures are located in the region of Maramureş, Northern part of Transylvania. They represent a group of 100 Orthodox churches, and some of them are grkokatoličeski. The churches are of different periods and built in different architectural styles. Churches of Maramures are high wooden structures with specific, narrow high bell towers at the western end of the building. They are a particular expression of the cultural landscape of this mountainous region in northern Romania.

Research of the Romanian students on:

♥ The Ancient City of Nessebar - BULGARIA

♥ Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain - SPAIN

♥ Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower - AZERBAIJAN

♥ Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape - TURKEY

The Ancient City of Nessebar

Routes of Santiago de Compostela

Walled City of Baku

Pergamon

The Ancient City of Nessebar - Bulgaria

The 3,000-year-old site of Nessebar, dating mostly from the Hellenistic period, was originally a Thracian settlement (Menebria).

Situated on a rocky peninsula on the Black Sea, the ancient city includes the acropolis, a temple of Apollo, an agora and a wall from the Thracian fortifications. The wooden houses built in the 19th century are typical of the Black Sea architecture of the period.

The urban structure contains elements from the second millennium BC, from Ancient Times and the Medieval period.

The Ancient City of Nessebar is an outstanding testimony of multilayered cultural and historical heritage. It is a place where many civilizations left their tangible traces.

By Alex, Alexandra, Bianca, Paul

Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower - Azerbaijan

The Walled City of Baku reveals evidence of Zoroastrian, Sasanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian presence in cultural continuity. The Inner City (Icheri Sheher) has preserved much of its 12th-century defensive walls.

The 12th-century Maiden Tower (Giz Galasy) is built over earlier structures dating from the 7th to 6th centuries BC, and the 15th-century Shirvanshahs' Palace is one of the pearls of Azerbaijan's architecture.

The magnificence of Icherisheher lies in the combination of its distinct architectural monuments with original street views, which have merged into a single entity to reflect its long history and the melding of cultures that have influenced its development over the past nine centuries.

By Carla, Denisa M., Dragoș, Iulian

Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain

The site is an extension of the Route of Santiago de Compostela, a serial site inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1993. The extension represents a network of almost 1,500 km: coastal, interior of the Basque Country–La Rioja, Liébana and primitive routes. It includes a built heritage of historical importance created to meet the needs of pilgrims, including cathedrals, churches, hospitals, hostels and even bridges.

The Route of Santiago de Compostela bears outstanding witness to the power and influence of faith among people of all social classes and origins in medieval Europe and later. The Route of Santiago de Compostela played a crucial role in the two-way exchange of cultural advances between the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe.

By Antonia, Patricia, Denis, Eric

Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape - Turkey

Pergamon was founded in the 3rd century BC as the capital of the Attalid dynasty.

Located in the Aegean Region, the heart of the Antique World, and at the crossroads between Europe and the Middle East, it became an important cultural, scientific and political centre. Creation of the capital on top of Kale Hill set the scene for the city.

The exceptional composition of monuments includes the extremely steep theatre, the lengthy stoa, a three-terraced Gymnasium, the Great Altar of Pergamon, the tumuli, pressured water pipelines, the city walls, and the Kybele Sanctuary which was perfectly aligned with Kale Hill.

As the Attalid capital, Pergamon was the protector of cities in the Hellenistic Period.

By Denisa S., Emma, Mădălina, Sergiu

Spanish research from

IES Navarro Villoslada on...

Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

Danube Delta

Ancient City of Nessebar

Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia

Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape

Hierapolis-Pamukkale

Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower

Built in a territory inhabited since the Paleolithic, the walled city of Baku shows the traces of the successive presence of several cultures. The intramural part (Icheri Sheher) has preserved intact a large part of its walls of the twelfth century. The Tower of the Virgin (Giz Galasi) was erected in the same century on old buildings dating from the seventh to sixth centuries BC. The Palace of the Shahs of Shirvan (15th century) is considered one of the jewels of Azerbaijani architecture.

In 2000, there was an earthquake which caused damage to the property. UNESCO, listed these monuments under the “List of World Heritage in Danger” from 2004 to 2009 with the comment “Loss of authenticity due in part to the earthquake in 2000 and to the urban development pressures.” However, the “in danger” tag attached to the site was removed by UNESCO in 2009 after the concerned authorities evolved a “Conservation Master Plan” and assured of adequate conservation of the management of the property.

By... Jhostin, Athenea, Irene, Daniel, Tasio, Juan, Xabier, Iker and Alex

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

Thousand petroglyphs executed over a period of 40,000 years of rock art. These also have important settlements, inhabited caves and funerary sites so this demonstrated that the humans lived a long time of period in these place, from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. This set occupied  537 hectares.

It has images about the life in the Caucaso.It saw us ancient population which travels in rush boats, men hunting antelopes, wild bulls, animals, rituals, dances, bullfights, warriors with lances in their hands, pictures of sun and stars and women dancing

By... Nahia, Andrea, Lola, Iñigo, Alba and Andrés

Danube Delta

The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania, but it also lies in Odessa, in Ukraine. It flows into the Black Sea. The Danube divides into three main distributaries: Chilia, Sulina & Saint George.

The delta hosts more than 1,200 species of plants, 320 species of birds, as well as more than 3,400 species of fauna .The vegetation is dominated by formations of reed beds and reeds(78%),and salt marshes (6%).Now the Danube Delta has been included in the Unesco list of places classified as a Biosphere Reserve.

At present the delta suffers from a large sediment deficit,after the construction of dams on the Danube and its tributaries in the later half of the 20th century.

By Fabrizzio, Marta, Alis, Mireia and Carlos

Ancient city of Nessebar

It is located in the Bulgarian Black sea coast in the province of Burgas, in the second millennium B.C. The Greeks conquered and they creed a colony then the Roman Empire conquered the city of Nessebar. Finally, in the year 812 the Bulgarians reconquered its territory.

During this conquest they built a lot of fortifications, castles and churches. These monuments were included in the World Heritage list (since 1983). This city has different churches built between XIII and XIV centuries.

The monuments never being restored are all very old.

By Adrián Muñoz, Sheila, Irati, Javier and Esther

Göreme National Park & the Rock Sites of Cappadocia

Located in Turkey, in the Nevsehir Province of Central Anatolia, in the volcanic zone

It is at 500 m high and approximately with 40 km of archeological findings.

There are unusual rock formations called “fairy chimneys”

Ancient volcanoes erupted and blanketed the area with thick ash, which solidified. over the years, wind and water have eroded it, leaving only its harder elements behind to form a fairly landscape of cones,pillars, pinnacles, mushrooms, and chimneys

By... Asier, Carolina, Patricia, Mikel, Lucía Esparza, José, Daniel, Vicky and Laura

Research of Turkey (school 1) on:

CATALAN ROMANESQUE CHURCHES OF THE VALL DE BOİ

The narrov Vall De Boi is situated in the high Pyrénées, in the Alta Ribagorça region and is surrounded by steep mountains. Each village in the valley contains a Romanesque Church, and is surrounded by a pattern of enclosed fields. There are extensive seasonally used grazing lands on the higher slopes.

As a group, these Churches represent an especially pure and consistent example of pictorial art and architecture in the Lombard Romanesque style. They were built between the 11th and 12th centuries under the patronage of the Lords of Erill, and were unusual for their placement on the fringe of their respective ancient villages and also for the richness of the interior pictorial decoration

Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape

The city of Pergamon is in Turkey, near the Aegean Sea (26 Km), on the north side of river Caicus.

Pergamon was the capital of the Hellenistic Attalid dynasty and became its capital city in this period and also of the Roman province of Asia

Many remains of its impressive monuments can still be seen and especially the outstanding masterpiece of the Pergamon altar.

LOCALISATION: Bergama Izmir Province

REGION: Aeolis

By... Asier Tabar, Jon, Lucía Calvo, Saioa, Ismael and Lourdes

Hierapolis-Pamukkale

Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli in SW Turkey. The area is famous for a carbonate mineral left by the flowing water.

Pamukkale travertine was created by thermal water depositing the calcium carbonate it contained

There are 5 thermal springs with water temperatures between 35-36°C

Was first excavated by a German Archeologist during june and july 1887.

By... Adrián Lezáun, Sara, Mónica, Natalia, Pablo and Sergio

VALL DE BOI IS PROTECTİNG BY UNESCO

THIS PLACE HAS GOT FRESH AND NATURAL WATER

The components of this serial heritage property are the churches of Sant Feliu de Barruera, Sant Joan De Boí, Santa Maria de Taüll, Sant Climent de Taüll, Nativitat de Durro, Santa Eulàlia d’Erill-la-Vall, l’Assumpció de Santa Maria de Coll, Santa Maria de Cardet and the hermitage of Sant Quirc De Durro

The importance of the churches of the Vall de Boí, however, lies in their group value: there is nowhere else in Europe with an ensemble of such notable churches built during the same, relatively short, period of time

  Neither is there any other group that so vividly illustrates the transmission of a cultural movement able to pass over a high mountain barrier and become established, with high technical and artistic standards, in another territory. The group can therefore be considered a masterpiece of the period and an example of great human creativity.

The significant developments in Romanesque art and architecture in the Churches Of The Vall De Boí testify to profound cultural interchange across medieval Europe and in particular across the mountain barrier of the Pyrenees.

 The Churches Of The Vall De Boí are an especially pure and consistent example of Romanesque art in a virtually untouched rural setting.

Navitat de la Mare de Deu,Durro

The small town of Durro is situated at an elevation of 1.386 metres, on the a south- facing mountain side. The church has a single long and narrow nave with a barrel vault and slate roof. It was built with a single apse,now rapleced by a sacristy. Two square chapels have been built into the nothern wall, and bell tower rises from the northeast corner to five storeys. The entrance is cut into the southern wall to a covered walk way . The building has been ronevated and extended many times since it was built in the 12th century and little of its orginal apperance remains. The interior retains Boroque features from later renavations.