MY FAVORITE PLACE IN TORREVIEJA

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I have created a Glogster about my favortite place in Torrevieja. Hope you like it as I do!

MONUMENTS

Torrevieja is a new city but it has monuments and museums that you can visit besides the beach and the salt lake and lagoon.

There are several churches around the city and different museums. The museums are related to the sea such as the Salt and Sea Museum or the submarine that you can visit and learn about how people live in a boat or a submarine.

Moreover, there are viewers where you can do sighseeing and enjoy the view.

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CURIOSITIES

When you visit this city you discover that Torrevieja is a multicultural city. It remains to differents capital cities from other countries such as: Toronto or New York due to theis inhabitants. You can find people from all over the world. When you go for a walk you can meet: British, Swedish, Norwegians, Germans, Irish, Russians... You can listen to different languages in the same place. People from Torrevieja speak Spanish and a lot time ago they used to speak Valencian too. English is a key language in the city, you will use English as an international language in a multicultural society.

Another curiosity is the earthquake that destroyed the city in 1829. Nowadays, Torrevieja is a seismic area and every year there are low earthquakes in the city.

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FESTIVALS

Torrevieja has a lot of festivals during the whole year. We love to celebrate these festivals dancing, singing, participating in processions and parades.

January: The three Kings come to the city bringing toys to the children.
February: Carnival. We celebrate carnival wearing fancy dresses and doing contests and parades.
March: Easter. It's a traditional festival. People dress up as nazarenos and they participate in a Christian procession.
May: May Fair. People dress up as flamencos, they dance and sing in the stands of the fair.
July: Habaneras International Contest and El Carmen. Both festivals take place in July. Habaneras is very important in the music world, people from all over the world come to Torrevieja in order to participate or listen to the people singing the Habaneras melodies. Moreover, El Carmen, is the patron saint of fishermen. They take part in a procession by boat.

If you come to Torrevieja you will have a good time for sure!

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GASTRONOMY

Torrevieja has coast, country side and orchard because of that we can taste delicious meals made with fresh products.
The main products are related to the sea: squid, octopus, cuttlefish... You can try yummy tapas as dried octopus or cuttlefish with garlic and oil.

Moreover, paella made with fish or chicken and rabbit are typical from Torrevieja and other towns in the Valencian Community.

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GEOGRAPHY

We are going to begin this post with the Geography of Torrevieja.
The most important aspect of the geography is the coast and seaside. It has more than 20 km of coast. You are not going to find mountains in our town but you can have fun in the wonderful beaches and discovering the salt lake.

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Let's visit our city

We are students from a school in Torrevieja but we come from all over the world. Torrevieja is a multicultural and multilingual city. It is a town on the coast near Orihuela. It belongs to the Valencian Community and it has a population of 104.000 inhabitants.

We are participating in a project with another school in Greece. We are twinned with the Greek center in order to learn about their culture and traditions at the same time that we learn about our city and we use English to communicate with them. On this blog, we will write about our learning and we will describe the process.

We want to show you our city so Let's visit Torrevieja!