Instituto Saavedra Fajardo (Murcia)

The students of 4thD ESO greet their Polish colleagues and their teachers

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Introduction of our school

• Location• Biography of Saavedra Fajardo • Landscapes• Museums• Festivals • Leisure• Contemporary artists from our Region

Location

Biography of Saavedra Fajardo

• Diego de Saavedra Fajardo (Algezares, Murcia 1,584 Madrid, 1,648), Spanish writer and diplomatic.

• He lived in Naples and Sicily. Worked in the Ministry of War in Naples. Was ordered dean of Santiago in 1,617

• His main opus, based on the idea of a chretien politician prince, has a moral and philosophic aim.

Landscapes of Murcia

• Calblanque, Natural Protected Area

• Muslim palace and Christ of Monteagudo

• Cresta del Gallo

• La Manga (Aerial view)

• Castle of Lorca

Calblanque, Natural Protected Area

Muslim palace and Christ of Monteagudo

Cresta del Gallo

La Manga (aereal view)

Castle of Lorca

Museums in Murcia

• Museo Salzillo• Centro Párraga• La Conservera• Museo Santa Clara• Museo de Bellas Artes • El Museo de la Ciudad• Museo arqueológico • www.es/museos/index_.asp• www.murcia-museociudad.org

Museo Salzillo

Centro Párraga

La Conservera

Museo de Santa Clara

Museo de Bellas Artes

Museo de la ciudad

Museo arqueológico

More places in Murcia • The Catedral

Romea Theatre

Segura river

Festivals

• September fair. – The first forthnight of

september– Very popular– It includes music

festivals, bullfighting, folklore festival…….

Moors and Chretiens parades

• It started in 1981, as a memory of the city foundation, in April of 831.

The Holy Week

• This is the most ancient celebration in the city

• The style of the processions keeps the sprit of the XVIII Century

The spring festival

• Bando de la huerta: Big parade, on Tuesday after the Holy week.

– Music bands, carnivals, charriots, groups of dance and floats showing scenes of the ancient orchard

• The burial of the sardine. Carnival parade playing a mourning procession. It finishes with the burning of a symbolic sardine

Leisure places

• Places to eat

Places to have a drink

Places to dance

Feeling your city coulours

Places to go shopping

Contemporary artists in our Region

• Paco Ñíguez:

Manuel Avellaneda

Salvador Torres

Goodbye

• See you soon, we are waiting for your visit to Murcia, so that you can see everything that this presentation includes.Bye