European thoughts by Vasilica Gazdac

MARIA LUCIA BELLIPARIO VASILICA GAZDAC

EUROPEAN THOUGHTS

CLUJ-NAPOCA 2017

This book represent a product of the Erasmus + project: PROJECT ERASMUS +KA2 “OTHER, ALIKE, THE SAME” 2016-2018 No: 2016-1-IT02-KA219-024291_2

THE PROJECT HAS BEEN FOUNDED WITH SUPPORT FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION. THIS PRESENTATION REFLECTS THE VIEWS ONLY OF THE AUTOR AND THE COMMISSION CANNOT HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USE WHICH MAY BE MADE OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED THERE IN.

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Coordinators of this book â&#x20AC;?European thoughtsâ&#x20AC;?Teacher Maria Lucia Bellipario- I.C. 4 C.D. Bregante-S.M.Volta,MonopoliItaly and Teacher Vasilica Gazdac, School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania. Scientific reviewer-Teacher Crina Clapou, Regional School Inspectorate County, Bistrita-Nasaud Scientific reviewer-Teacher Daniela Hudrea Regional School Inspectorate County, Bistrita-Nasaud.

International collaborators in this book are: Teacher Crina Clapou-Regional School Inspectorate County Bistrita-Nasaud, Romania Teacher Daniela Hudrea-Regional School Inspectorate County,Bistrita-Nasaud, Romania Teacher Vasilica Gazdac- School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania Teacher Luminita Cuceu- School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania Teacher Maricuta Codrea- School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania Teacher Linul Crina-School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania Teacher Furcea Doina- School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania Teacher Simionese Ana-Floarea-School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania Teacher Sas Alexandra- School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania Teacher Moldovan Floare- School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania Teacher Oana Ilovan- School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania Teacher Pop Anamaria-School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania Teacher Adriana Pop-School Tiberiu Morariu Salva,Romania. Romana-Iulia Fetti- Headteacher-School Tiberiu Morariu Salva, Romania Pupil Daria Secheli-Grade 4,School Tiberiu Morariu Salva,Romania Pupil Nicoleta Sas-Grade 4, School Tiberiu Morariu Salva,Romania Pupil Maria Ceuca- Grade 4, School Tiberiu Morariu Salva,Romania Pupil Denisa Puica-Grade 5 ,School Tiberiu Morariu Salva,Romania

Pupil Andrei Bolbos-Grade 5,School Tiberiu Morariu Salva,Romania. Pupil Amalia Tuturuga- Grade 5,School Tiberiu Morariu Salva,Romania Ermelinda Rita Fasano- I.C. 4 C.D. Bregante-S.M.Volta,Monopoli-Headteacher Italy Teacher Maria Lucia Bellipario- I.C. 4 C.D. Bregante-S.M.Volta,Monopoli-Italy Teacher Angela ParagĂ˛ I.C. 4 C.D. Bregante-S.M.Volta,Monopoli-Italy Pupil Mariantonietta Giangrande I.C. 4 C.D. Bregante-S.M.Volta,Monopoli-Italy Pupil Sara Mangiarano I.C. 4 C.D. Bregante-S.M.Volta,Monopoli-Italy Pupil Vincenzo Copertino I.C. 4 C.D. Bregante-S.M.Volta,Monopoli-Italy Pupil Giacomo Palmisani I.C. 4 C.D. Bregante-S.M.Volta,Monopoli-Italy Pupil Domenico Fanizzi I.C. 4 C.D. Bregante-S.M.Volta,Monopoli-Italy Pupil Sante Bagordo I.C. 4 C.D. Bregante-S.M.Volta,Monopoli-Italy Teacher Antonio Angel Mesa Conejo- Fundacion diocesana san Marciano Jose Colegia diocesano Santa Cruz, Guadalajara-Spain. Teacher Marta Besteiro Vallejo- Fundacion diocesana san Marciano Jose Colegia diocesano Santa Cruz, Guadalajara-Spain Teacher Antonio Cano- Fundacion diocesana san Marciano Jose Colegia diocesano Santa Cruz, Guadalajara-Spain Pupil Claudia Jimenez Higuera- Fundacion diocesana san Marciano Jose Colegia diocesano Santa Cruz, Guadalajara-Spain Pupil Iker Catalan Villalba- Fundacion diocesana san Marciano Jose Colegia diocesano Santa Cruz, Guadalajara-Spain Pupil Diego Cristobal Herranz- Fundacion diocesana san Marciano Jose Colegia diocesano Santa Cruz, Guadalajara-Spain Teacher Serena Jemson- Stanley Primary School, Blackpool- UK Teacher Holly McGuire- Stanley Primary School, Blackpool- UK Teacher Polyvios Krystalidis-1stPrimary School of Efkarpia,Thessaloniki- Greece Teacher Charalampos Douvketis-1stPrimary School of Efkarpia,Thessaloniki- Greece.

Teacher Anastasia Katsaounidou-1stPrimary School of Efkarpia,Thessaloniki- Greece Teacher Despina Vogiagi -1stPrimary School of Efkarpia,Thessaloniki- Greece Teacher Theodoros Eleftheriadis-1stPrimary School of Efkarpia,Thessaloniki- Greece Pupils of the 6th grade (45 students) and5th and 4th grade-1stPrimary School of Efkarpia,Thessaloniki- Greece

A6- European Monuments -collection of QR codes -Pupils will select and choose ten famous monuments in their country related to European

culture and civilization in digital format. -Pupils will add the name and a brief description of monument. -Take some photos during this activity. -Pupils helped by teachers will create QR code to be discovered by their colleagues in the partner countries. -QR codes makers: Aurasma Delivr GoQR.me Unitag QRStuff -Every schools prepare 10 QR codes for codes hunting and 2 photos in printed and digital format. It can be used tablets, mobile phones of teachers if internal regulations prohibit this device on pupils. - Each partner school will prepare 10 QR codes and 2 photos for Short training event with pupils and teachers in Thessaloniki, Greece( 22-26 May 2017) in a pack/flyer/small brochure in digital and printed format. - Each partner school prepared 12 packages ( in printed format) three for each partner. -After meeting in Greece, Romania ( leader team of this activity) create a commune digital brochure uploaded on (issuu, project blog, Facebook page, Twitter, etwinning) with all QR codes + photos of pupils working on this task and photos from QR workshop in Thessaloniki Greece. -Each partner shows in the Erasmus corner the QR codes received from the partners and the photos (printed) of the children engaged in the activity.

I.C. 4 C.D. Bregante-S.M.Volta, Monopoli Italy( Coordinator)

SCHOOL “TIBERIU MORARIU” SALVA, ROMANIA

1. The Peles Castle

The Peles Castle is one of Romania’s most important and impressive landmarks, originally representing a place for relaxation and leisure for the country’s monarchs. The castle was sketched out by architects Karel Liman and Johannes Schultz, and it was built in 1914 in Sinaia, Prahova, just 27 miles away from the beautiful city of Brasov. During their visit, tourists are able to admire the sheer luxury and majestic beauty of this architectural masterpiece. Highlights include a series if lavish rooms such as the theatre room, council room, arms room and living room. However, the Imperial Bedroom is by far the most impressive room in the building, flaunting exquisite decorations such a wonderful chandelier made using Bohemian crystal.

2.The People’s Palace in Bucharest

The People’s Palace, also known as the Palace of the Parliament is the second largest administrative building in the world after the Pentagon. To give you a better idea regarding the building’s size, imagine that its volume is actually 2% larger compared to the Pyramid of Keops. The People’s Palace comprises approximately 1000 rooms, including 4 restaurants, 30 saloons, 440 offices, 2 underground parking lots and 3 libraries. Tourists are able to visit the Palace daily between 10am and 4pm.

3.Bran Castle

According to this legend, the castle used to be the place where Dracula, the character of Bram Stoker's book, lived. But there is a confusion between Dracula and Vlad Tepes, ruler of Wallachia, as they are not one and the same person. The first is just a mith, a character, and the second has nothing to do with Dracula, it is just a result of the interference between some real historical facts about the rulership of Vlad Tepes, mentioned in the writings of some chroniclers of the time, who wanted to put him in bad light and the association of these facts with Dracula's character. There are many stories about the cruelty of Vlad Tepes "The Impaler", but no one can prove their veracity, so they still remain surrounded by mystery.In 1920, the castle was donated to Queen Maria, by the City Council of Brasov. She brought an architect from the Royal Court, by the name of Carol Liman, to restore the place. The restoration took seven years, and in the end the castle was transformed in to a gorgeous summer residence, surrounded by a beautiful park with alleys, a lake and several fountains. It was enharited by the queen's daughter, Princess Ileana, who will own it until the year of 1948, when the royal family is expelled from the country.It becomes a property of the state, but unfortunately, it is devastated and abandoned. Only in 1956 it is opened as a history museum, but still it's state is very bad and has to be restaured, starting from 1987 to 1993. On the 18th of May, 2009, the Castle was retroceded to the family of Princess Ileana. It suffered some thematic changes: a special room dedicated to Dracula was arranged, and it is called "Bram Stoker", a room in which you can see video projections from the National Archives, about Queen Maria and Princess Ileana. On the 1st of June, the castle was officially reopened.

4. Voroneț Monastery

Romania is renowned for the painted monasteries from southern Bukovina. Voroneț Moastery is probably the most famous of them all. The church became well-known for its exterior frescoes of bright and intense colours, and for the hundreds of well-preserved figures placed against the renowned azure background.

The legend tells that Stephen the Great - Prince of Moldavia between 1457 and 1504 - was in a moment of crises during the war against the Ottoman Turks. He went to Voroneț to see Daniel the Hermit and to ask for advice. After winning the battle, he kept his promise to the monk and built a new church dedicated to Saint George, the "bringer of victory in battle". The Metropolitan Bishop of Moldavia, Grigorie Roşca, added in 1547 the exonarthex to the west end of the church.The church was built in only four months and a half in 1488, a real record of the time. The church still has the original decoration on the north façade with beautiful rows of ceramic enameled discs in yellow, brown and green, decorated in relief.

5. The Merry Cemetery, Săpânţa

If you're strolling around in Maramureș, you might as well set your GPS on Săpânța.This place is only about 18km from Sighetul Marmatiei and it is unique not just in Romania but likely in the entire world, because it hosts the only known 'funny' cemetery. You should definitely stop by and not only visit a merry cemetery, but also understand a little more of the Romanian culture, known for its humor and self-irony. In the village of Săpânța, Stan Ioan Pătraş started carving his first wooden cross of the Merry cemetery in 1935, sculpting bas-relief and writing poems about the deceased. His naive paintings use a bright blue dubbed the “Săpânţa blue”, most probably representing the sky and lots of other vivid colors such as green (representing life), yellow (representing fertility), red (representing passion) or black (standing of course for death). All these colors were obtained from natural pigments, and are well preserved.Walking between the 800 wooden crosses is happy experience. You'll find it hard to hold back a beautiful smile, because every cross will tell you in just a few words the story of a life, of a person, a sad destiny seen through a pair of funny lens. The villagers from Săpânța defy tragedy - it is said the culture of this cemetery is rooted in Dacian times, in which "passing away" is only seen as passing on to a better and more satisfying life. So if you are in Maramures, stop by and amuse yourself with the stories that all these unique crosses have to tell at the Happy Cemetery in Săpânța.

6. Barsana Monastery

The village, attested documentary or the first time in 1326 (when King Charles Robert I of Anjou acknowledged and reinstained by a deed in this places prince Stanislau), is host of one of the most beautiful monasteries in Romania: Barsana Monastery, actually a convent with fourteen nuns Barsana is one of the wooden churches in Maramures, a beautiful synthesis of Eastern and Western European architecture, with Gothic and Byzantine elements. The church was manually carved by some of the most talented craftsmen from Maramures. he frescoes are very similar to those of the painted monasteries of Moldavia. This Wooden Church is the only one with double cornice, the Old Monastery, the tallest wooden building in Europe (62 m tall). No power tools or nails were used to put this impressive construction together. Its beauty and uniqueness made it one of the eight churches in the region that UNESCO designated WORLD HERITAGE site. The monastic compound is made of wood as well, according to the local tradition. Only Barsana craftsmen are building the compound, under the direct supervision of architect Dorel Cordos. Today you can admire the Maramures gate, the belfry, the church, the summer shire, the house with cells and chapel, the house of the masters, the house of the artists and a more recently arranged museum portraying the Maramures history, culture and civilization.

7. Babele and Sfinx from Bucegi Mountain

Babele (meaning The old women) is a name for an area on the Bucegi Mountains plateau in Romania, within the Southern Carpathians.,Babele is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country. The name comes from some mushroom shaped rock formations, the result of erosion and varying hardness of the rock layers.The Babele chalet is accessible either by cable car from Buşteni or by road. It can also be reached by foot, coming from Buşteni through Valea Jepilor (Juniper Valley), or from the crest of Bucegi Mountains, from the Piatra Arsă (The Burned Rock) challet. Sphinx (Romanian: Sfinxul) is a natural rock formation in the Bucegi Natural Park which is in the Bucegi Mountains of Romania. It is located at an altitude of 2,216 metres (7,270 ft) within the Babele complex of rock formations. The first photo of the Great Bucegi Sphinx was probably taken in about the year 1900. This photograph was taken from a front position, not from a lateral one, as it usually appears in pictures nowadays. It only acquired its nickname, referring to the Great Sphinx of Giza, in the year 1936. The image of the sphinx appeared when the rock, having an 8 m height and a 12 m width, was watched from a certain angle. The megalith has its clearest outline on 21 November, at the time the sun goes down.

8. Endless Column

The Endless Column symbolizes the concept of infinity and the infinite sacrifice of the Romanian soldiers. It is considered by Sydnei Geist the top point of the modern art. The Endless Column stacks 17 rhomboidal modules, with a half-unit at the top. The incomplete top unit is thought to be the element that expresses the concept of the infinite.[1] Brâncuși had experimented with this form as early as 1918, with an oak version now found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[2] The modules were made in the central workshop of Petroşani (Atelierele Centrale Petroşani), assembled by Brâncuși's friend engineer Ştefan Georgescu-Gorjan (1905–1985), and completed on 27 October 1938. All 17 rhomboidal modules accumulate a total height of 29.3 m.[3] In the 1950s, the Romanian communist government planned to demolish the column, but this plan was never executed. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and the fall of the Communist regime, there was renewed interest in restoring the column, which by that time suffered from tilting, cracking, metal corrosion, and an unstable foundation. For these reasons the site was listed in the 1996 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund. The restoration was facilitated by the Fund, which organized meetings for the stakeholders in 1998 and provided funding through American Express. Subsequently, the site was restored between 1998 and 2000 through a collaborative effort of the Romanian Government, the World Monuments Fund, the World Bank, and other Romanian and international groups.

9. St. Michael's Church, Cluj-Napoca

The St. Michael's Church (Romanian: Biserica Sfântul Mihail, Hungarian: Szent Mihálytemplom) is a Gothic-style Roman Catholic church in Cluj-Napoca. It is the second largest church (after the Black Church of Brașov) in the geographical region of Transylvania, Romania. The nave is 50 meters long and 24 meters wide, the apse is 20×10 m. The tower with its height of 76 meter (80 meter including the cross) is the highest one in Transylvania. The western portal is decorated with the three coats of arms of Sigismund as King of Hungary, as King of Bohemia and as Holy Roman Emperor. The construction was begun probably in place of the Saint James Chapel. The financing of the church was partly done by the citizens, partly from the income of indulgences. (The first related document from 1349, signed by the archbishop of Avignon and fifteen other bishops grants the indulgence for those contributing to the illumination and furniture of the Saint Michael Church.) The construction was completed between 1442-1447, the old tower was built between 1511-1545. The tower that stands today was erected in 1862.The church was converted with the population to Protestantism between 1545-1566. Then the more radical Unitarian patry took it over in the period 1566-1716. At last, it was confiscated in the counter reformation by the Habsburg government supported Catholic Church.

10. Danube Delta

The Danube Delta (Romanian: Delta Dunării pronounced [ˈdelta ˈdunərij] ( listen); Ukrainian: Дельта Дунаю, Deľta Dunayu, Ukrainian pronunciation: [deʎˈtɐ dunɑˈju]) is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania (Tulcea County), while its northern part, on the left bank of the Chilia arm, is situated in Ukraine (Odessa Oblast). Its approximate surface area is 4,152 km2 (1,603 sq mi), of which 3,446 km2 (1,331 sq mi) is in Romania. With the lagoons of Razim–Sinoe (1,015 km2 (392 sq mi) with 865 km2 (334 sq mi) water surface), located south of the main delta, the total area of the Danube Delta is 5,165 km2 (1,994 sq mi). The Razim–Sinoe lagoon complex is geologically and ecologically related to the delta proper and the combined territory is listed as a World Heritage Site.

1stPrimary School of Efkarpia Thessaloniki, Greece.

European Thoughts – QR Codes made by pupils from Greece (April 2017)

“Landmarks of Greece” 1st Primary School of Efkarpia

1. The Parthenon, Athena's temple, symbol of Greek and Athenian democracy.

2. The volcano of Santorini

3. Lion Gate, Mykines

4. Lighting Ceremony of the Olympic Flame, Î&#x;lympia

5. Church of St. Dimitrios, patron saint of Thessaloniki

6. The palace of Knossos, Heraklion, Crete

7. The Macedonian tombs, Vergina

8. The ancient theatre of Epidaurus.

9. The White Tower, Thessaloniki

10. Thessalonikiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rotunda, an ancient church

Fundacion Diocesana San Marciano Jose Colegia Diocesano Santa Cruz, Guadalajara,Spain

Stanley Primary School, Blackpool, UK

European Thoughts – collections of QR Codes made by pupils from the United Kingdom (April 2017) “Famous Landmarks of Britain”

Scan the QR codes to visit the class BLOG for each Junior Class. The Flying Scotsman (4A)

National Space Centre (4P)

Cambridge (4A)

Blackpool Tower (5C)

The Clifton Suspension Bridge (5P)

Trams (5EC)

Westminster Cathedral (6JR)

Buckingham Palace (6C)

Blackpool War Memorial (3W)

Houses of Parliament (6W)

Angel of the North (3D)

Liverpool Docks (3M)

Thanks to all the children and teachers of Stanley Primary School who supported the activities.

QR Challenge: Top 5 famous monuments from Romania QR Codes for Teachers: Use the 'instructions' code to start the lesson. Place the 'Quiz Questions' around the school. Note: each of the QR codes is a text file. There is no need for the mobile devices to connect to the internet to decode them. The correct answers for this quiz can be found here.

Instructions Top 5 famous monuments from Romania Your job is to find the QR codes which your teacher has put on display around the area. Scan each QR code into your mobile device to get a challenge question. Record the correct answers to all of the *5* questions. The winner is the student with the most correct answers at the end of the time available. Good luck!