Today the mayor of Culture has received you in the CIM |
Twenty-eight Parisian students landed yesterday in Cartagena for an intensive Spanish course to improve and today have been given a welcome presentation in the Faculty of Business, located in the old CIM.
This check is performed within the program of activities carried out Funcarele (Cartagena Foundation for Teaching Spanish Language and Culture).
The mayor of Greater Culture, Tourism and Education, Rosario Montero, who chaired the ceremony this morning, stressed the important role that it plays with such activities whose primary purpose is to spread the Spanish and the culture of this country.
With this program students receive usual visit to Cartagena of youths from different countries, he said.
Several families cartageneras host these students for an intense week in order to further refine the language and know firsthand the customs.
In the mornings receive Spanish classes in the evenings and participate in various cultural activities to enjoy the most emblematic places of the city.
On Wednesday, for example, visit Granada and Friday will go to La Manga.
This was explained this morning Monica Simolo responsible for this group of students.
This foundation is also scheduled to visit the following months of other students from different countries such as Italy, Russia and England.
Besides this activity, the foundation organizes classes taught Spanish to foreign residents and tourists who are motivated by the language.
Funcarele is accredited by the Instituto Cervantes since 2010 and its main objective is to spread the greatness of idiomatic Castilian and attract tourism to the city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena