It is the number of students throughout the year to visit the city through Funcarele, an intensive language course.
This week it is up to thirty-two Italian teenagers who are now welcomed
Cartagena is one of the cities chosen by a large group of students from different countries to improve their Spanish.
Specifically, this year more than a hundred school kids make a crash course in the port city through Funcarele (Cartagena Foundation for Teaching Spanish Language and Culture).
This week are 32 students from the Institute Lunardi northern Italian port city visitors.
It is the second time this school students conducted this course Funcarele in Cartagena and most have wanted to repeat, explained this morning the Councillor for Culture and President of the Foundation, Rosario Montero, during the welcome ceremony held at the Faculty Science Business UPCT.
Several families welcome cartageneras these kids, in particular, two per household. Receive the mornings and intensive Spanish classes and in the afternoons, students use their stay to visit the city and some of the most iconic landmarks.
This afternoon will a walk in the park Torres and Tuesday will visit the Roman Theatre Museum.
On Wednesday go to Valencia to enjoy one of the most popular Spain holidays, failures, and also know the City of Arts and Sciences.
REPEAT STUDENTS VISIT
Erki Ceka, student High School, which is the first time to visit Cartagena, has been fascinated by the architecture that surrounds the city and does not rule come more often, perhaps when you are in college. I loved this city, its streets , its buildings and its people, the teenager confessed.
His Spanish teacher, Isacco Zanola, knows the city well, since last year also accompanied other students on this trip. It's a good way to improve language, discover a different culture and, above all, do so in this city ​​so cozy and familiar, the teacher explained.
Besides that kids can perfect the Spanish and know the city, is a good way to encourage language tourism, but not limited to these groups, but also with university and anyone interested in quickly learning the language, he clarified the mayor Rosario Montero .
After the stay of this group of Italian teenagers, other youngsters, but Russia and England, pass along this year for Cartagena to have a new experience in a different culture to your own.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena