Drinking Europe’s water : BISTRIȚA, ROMANIA 09

MONDAY May 9th

Welcome to Bistrița with Headmistress greetings

9 May - Europe Day celebrates peace and unity in Europe

Students workshop „ United in diversity, Building Trust for Our Common Future”

EU mission and values. EU symbols

How did the European Union develop? What is the European Union doing today? What do Europeans have in common?

Visit the “George Coșbuc” County Library Bistrița-Năsăud https://www.bjbn.ro/ Book exhibition

Cooper's Tower – Bistrița, houses a dolls and masks museum

TUESDAY May 10th

“George Coșbuc” County Library Bistrița-Năsăud - Students presented the myths, legends and literary works where the element of water (the river, the lake) has an important role.

Students worked together to find common literary motifs between the works, due either to influences from literary movements of all European countries or to the coexistence of many peoples of Europe.

Palatul Copiilor Bistrița - https://pcbn.ro/ Visits to classes, workshops and clubs for students/teachers

- Painting Club - "Playing Art" - creativity games

- Literary Creation Club – „Hint Map - The grammar of fantasy"

- Robotics, designing the future

- Photo - Movie club – „Photography workshop"

- Table Tennis Drills and Skills to Practice

WEDNESDAY May 11th

The Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden - serves as a teaching and research center as part of the Babeș-Bolyai University. http://gradinabotanica.ubbcluj.ro/en/the-ornamental-sector/

The Japanese Garden ( with a brook and a Japanese-style house)

The Roman Garden with archeological remains from the Roman colony of Napoca

The water tower

Aquarium

Visit Cluj-Napoca - important academic, cultural, industrial and business center in Romania. In 2005, it was the European Youth Capital.

- Tailors' Bastion - the fortification towers that were part of the Old Fortress of Cluj

- Matei Corvin House - hosts the Ion Andreescu Institute of Fine Arts

- Orthodox Cathedral - Byzantine and Romanian style

- The Franciscan Church

THURSDAY May 12th

Bistrita river promenade, Municipal Park - Pupils presented a theatrical play from the works they have studied (the central subject being water)

Visit Sugalete - a complex of 13 buildings dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, containing typical Renaissance buildings of Transylvania.

The Tree of Friendship - “Plant a tree, plant your future” Palatul Copiilor Bistrița

Bistrița-Năsăud Museum Complex https://www.complexulmuzealbn.ro/

The Silversmith's House - an architectural monument from the beginning of the sixteenth century
Evangelical Church - the greatest attraction of Bistriţa's Main Square built by Transylvanian Saxons centuries ago