Istituto Comprensivo “Alighieri”Sant’Agostino, Ferrara

PROGETTO COMENIUSConosci la Grecia?

Our school partners

• L’Ecole George Poboran de Roumanie • -

Çamlica Ilkögretim okulu Turhal-Tokat, de Turquie

• - zespol szkol, de Pologne• - le 4ème collège de Corfou, de Grèce• - l'Istituto Comprensivo Dante Alighieri, d'Italie • -

Le Lycée Français de Palma, d'Espagne et de France

The Teachers in Corfù

OUR CONTACTS

SCOALA CU CLS I-VIII, GEORGE POBORAN - SLATINA - RO

Lycee Francais de Palma - Palma de Mallorca - ES

Zespol Szkol - Czerwionka-Leszczyny - PL

CAMLICA ILKOGRETIM OKULU - TOKAT - TR

4eme college de Corfou - ΚΕΡΚΥΡΑ - GR

GREECE

Greek Flag

Why this flag?

• According to popular tradition, the nine stripes represent the nine syllables of the phrase "Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος" ("Freedom or Death", " E-lef-the-ri-a i Tha-na-tos"), the five blue stripes for the syllables "Έλευθερία" and the four white stripes "ή Θάνατος".

• The nine stripes are also said to represent the letters of the word "freedom" (Greek: Ελευθερία). There is also a different theory, that the nine stripes symbolize the nine Muses, the goddesses of art and civilization)

Nine Muses dancing with Apollo, by Baldassare Peruzzi

• Calliope - Epic poetry _Writing tablet• Clio – History - Scrolls • Erato - Lyric poetry - Cithara (an ancient Greek

musical instrument in the lyre family) • Euterpe - Music - Aulos (an ancient Greek

musical instrument like a flute) • Melpomene - Tragedy - Tragic mask • Polyhymnia - Choral poetry - Veil • Terpsichore - Dance - Lyre

• Thalia - Comedy - Comic mask • Urania - Astronomy -

• Blue and white have many interpretations, symbolizing the colours of the famed Greek sky and sea (combined with the white clouds and waves), traditional colours of Greek clothes in the islands and the mainland,

ODD CELEBRATIONS

• 8° January – GHINECOCRATIA• It is a celebration held in some places of

Tracia, the region in the North. Here people celebrate St Domenico (Anghia Kiriaki); it is a day when men and women exchange their roles at home for a day.

• 23° April –St George• The knight killed the dragon. St George is the

chief of the shepherds and he is celebrated all around the country. Big celebrations are held in Aranova and Skiros where St Georges is the patron saint

NATIONAL HOLIODAYS

• 25th March – Day of the Greek Independence. The beginning of the insurrection against Turkist in 1821 is celebrated. This day is celebrated all around the Greece by military parades;

• 28th October – Day of the Greek Independence The day is characterized by military parade and folk dancing. It is the day of the “OXI”, no, in honour of the General Metaxas who refused

The demand from Mussolini to occupy the country during the Second World War

. 17th November – it is the day of the insurrection of students against the “Generals” in 1974

Other information

• It entered in the EEC in 1973• The drachma was the Greek currency from

1832 to 2002