Tra ve lling ar oun d Gr ee ce Collaborative-Student Edition of Primary Schools in Greece - 1st issue - June 2021 Travelling around Greece Through the past, present and future Our Wonderful schools’ meetings next year. Let’s begin our trip Trip awaiting more school A few months ago we communities of our country came up with an idea in and abroad to join us. order to meet other places For the Editorial Team around Greece and Cyprus of the collaborative through the cooperation of newspaper “Travelling our school with other around Greece” schools. The teacher – The idea was based on a coordinator and editor venture realised in Sweden Ilias Kartas – some 120 years before by The Primary School the writer and teacher Thomas - 1st Primary School of Parga of Arnissa, Pella Selma Lagerlöf. It pertained among other ways (Padlet, and feel the history but to Translation in English to custom writing a story of Freinet books, letter also face the problems and Editing geographical content for exchange and more). troubling us and offer Lina (Xanthippi) children attending public Sixteen of those schools solutions. Avramidou – schools. This imaginary agreed upon jointly We hope to be given this The Primary School story, unfolding in “The publishing a newspaper, opportunity through our of Arnissa Wonderful Adventures of which is to launch in Nils Holgersson”, gave English as well. pupils the means to Our goal is not only to Table of Contents mentally fly over the interact with students of Primary School of Agios Leon (Zakynthos) page 2 – 3 mountains, lakes, rivers other schools but also to Our Town-Agios Nikolaos (Creta) page 4 – 5 and plains of the country. introduce them to our place. Arnissa and the Vegoritida Area page 6 – 7 These adventures were to It is a nice opportunity for us Didimoticho, the Citadel page 8 – 9 reveal to them nature’s to get acquainted with our Evosmos, history and environment page 10 – 11 secrets as well as myths of local history and its Evosmos, our town page 12 – 13 Sweden. particularities so as to make Kalavarda (Rhodes), our area page 14 -15 Our trip started in small it known to others living far Corinth, our area page 16 – 17 steps, due to the pandemic, way from our community or Cos, our island page18 – 19 yet with great enthusiasm prefecture. Hence we can Lagyna, our area page 20 – 21 on behalf of the pupils and retrace our place in the map Nea Alikarnassos, our place page 22 – 23 excellent collaboration on and travel around every Nea Potidaia - An Unusual calendar page 24 – 25 the teachers’ part. corner on Earth through the Xanthi, our area page 26 – 27 Our proposal was warmly eyes of the future citizens Parga, the jewel of Epirus page 28 – 29 received by thirty schools, by exploiting all the tools of Platy, our home town page 30 – 31 which interacted in groups our digital era. All our Rafina, our port page 32 – 33 of both pupils and teachers senses shall be activated Agios Ioannis Serron – Kerkini page 34 through teleconferencing not just to see the sights 2 Travelling around Greece June 2021 Our school is situated in Primary School of Agios Leon “Travelling the village of Agios Leon, 23 around Greece. km west of Zakynthos town. It consists of 4 classes and Through the has 43 students who come past, present to school from all the near villages. The first inhabi - and future”. tants of the area were the Collaborative- Student Venetians who had con - Edition of quered the island in the Primary Schools 16th century. The village in Greece was named Agios Leon af - ter the bishop and saint of Address – Catania, a region in Sicily. Communication There are 450 hospitable Primary School residents in the village who of Arnissa are engaged in farming and P.C. 58002, Arnissa animal husbandry. A great Tel. 2381031234 part of them also work in mail@dim- tourism as more and more arniss.pel.sch.gr tourists visit our island every year. There are two church - EDITORIAL es in the village, one of them being Agia Paraskevi. The TEAM big church of Agios Leon is The editorial Teams of built on a small hill and its the participating schools belfry is based on an old windmill. Two of the most Coordinator – Editor beautiful beaches of the is - Ilias Kartas land, Porto Roxa and Porto Limniona, can be found Editor for the within a distance of 4 km. English Language There you get enchanted by Lina (Xanthippi) the wild beauty of the Avramidou scenery ‧ impressive rocks which lead to deep crystal https://padlet.com/ilika clear waters. In the village rt/q0abvbyszl1x967d there is a modern oil press that produces extra virgin o - live oil as well as a cheese factory that produces tradi - The newspaper tional local cheese like oil logo was designed cheese (ladotyri) and oil by students of the graviera (ladograviera). Primary School Wine, raisins and honey are of Platy Imathias. also produced. In Agios Leon you can find a traditional small business of cutting and processing s - tone. In this business the enormous saws cut the s - DIGITAL tones that come out of the PAGINATION Vrachionas mountain. Fur - Graphic arts thermore, “mourtaria” are S. Vagourdis S.A. produced that are mortars in Tel .: 23810 25019 which you can make aliada, email: [email protected] the traditional garlic dip. June 2021 Travelling around Greece 3 the tall belfry and the church of Agios Dionysios, the guardian of the island. He was called “the saint of sorry” be - cause he forgave and helped the killer of his brother escape. He is celebrated on the 17th of December. At the central square there is the statue of our nation - al poet, Dionysios Solomos. A little bit further you can find the museum of the Great Zakynthians where the bones of the two poets, D. Solomos and A. Kalvos, are kept. Our national poet is honoured with a monument on Strani hill where, sitting under a tree and lis - tening to the cannons from Messo - longhi, he wrote “Imnos is tin Elefthe - ria” (Hymn to Liberty). The “Shipwreck” is one of the best beaches in the world and can be visited only by boat. The beach has taken its name after the ship “Panagiotis” which was shipwrecked there in 1982. Crys - tal clear waters, steep rocks, white sand and the remains of the ship create an unbelievable scenery. The first Caretta-Caretta sea turtle rescue cen - tre of the Mediterranean was founded on the island. Every summer the sea turtles lay their eggs in the bay of La - ganas. Volunteers fence off their nests, take care of the injured sea turtles and inform tourists and students about the actions of the rescue centre. The Zakynthians love singing and dancing very much. They form groups that sing old local songs and serenades accompanied by guitars and man - dolins. During the summer you can hear these beautiful melodies coming from the taverns. Before you leave the There also mini mar - island you cannot miss trying the local kets, taverns, bak - sweets like nougats, Greek brittles, fry - eries that bake the gania and fytoura. Zakynthos is a b - bread in wooden s - lessed by nature place where there is toves, shops selling so much you can do and see, so many local products, a gas beaches you can dive in…You won’t station and a kinder - know where to start! Come and see! garten. The Venetians called our green is - The pupils of 4th and 5th Grade of land “Fior di Levante” the Primary School of the Northern which means “Flower Zone of Zakynthos of the East”. You can reach Zakynthos Teachers in charge: Marina Papa - from the port of Kyllini zoglou and Elisavet Dimitriou in one and a half Translated by Ioulia Tzalonikou, hour. On arriving at Teacher the port you can see 4 Travelling around Greece June 2021 Agios Nikolaos of Lassithi Our tractions in the center of Opposite the town In the beach of Votsalo, the town. The lake joins there is a small island there are large pebbles Town- the sea and it is about 50 called Agioi-Pantes . A and the water of the sea Agios meters deep while there rare species of wild goat is very deep. There are a Nikolaos have been rumours that called kri-kri has been lot of fish and huge rocks Our town Agios Niko - it is connected to the vol - living on the island since for diving. laos is located in the is - cano of Santorini. the last century. Almyros beach is next land of Crete. It is the There are a lot of beau - to a river, that’s why the capital of the prefecture tiful beaches to visit, like The beaches water of the sea is really of Lassithi. The town is Ammoudi beach, Ammos of Agios cold. built in the magical bay beach where caretta- It is a sandy beach and of “Mirabello” which caretta sea turtles lay Nikolaos there are various water s - means “Beautiful View”. their eggs every year or The beaches of Agios ports to play and have The lake “Voulismeni” Almiros beach which is Nikolaos are very clean fun. is one of the famous at - next to a wetland and and beautiful with crys - many others. tal clear waters. June 2021 Travelling around Greece 5 The archaeological museum of Agios Nikolaos The archaeological museum of Agios Nikolaos was founded in 1970. In the museum there are archaeological findings from the Neolithic and the Mi - noan era as well as findings up to the Greek-Roman times.