Barcelona
Set on a plain rising gently from the sea to a range of wooded hills,
Barcelona is Spain's most cosmopolitan city and one of the Mediterranean's busiest ports. With
a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of
101.4 km2 (39 sq mi)
it’s Spain’s second largest city and a
hard-working, dynamic place hoping to place itself in the vanguard of
21st-century Europe with a heavy concentration of hi-tech and biomedical business.
It regards its long past with pride. From Roman town it passed to
medieval trade giant, and its old centre constitutes one of the greatest
concentrations of Gothic architecture in Europe. Beyond this core are some of the world's more bizarre buildings:
surreal spectacles capped by Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família church.
Barcelona has been breaking ground in art, architecture and style since
the late 19th century.
Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, a region with its own language, character and history – many Catalans
think of their home as a separate country.
Institut Joan Brossa
Our high school is located in the upper part of the
city which was considered remote from the city centre and thus a quieter,
cooler and healthier place to build summer residences for those living
downtown. From the 1960s the whole area began its transformation, small villas
were pulled down to leave place for blocks of flats. The school facilities
stand on a kind of lookout with superb views all over the city. The
neighbourhood is peopled by middle-class families but an increasing number of
immigrant families have recently settled in the area. Our school has an
important percentage (about 25%) of students who come from other countries,
some of them, who have recently arrived, need special immersion programmes to
learn Catalan and adjust to the Catalan educational system.
The school provides compulsory secondary education
(12 to 16 years old), post-compulsory secondary education (16-18 years old) and
vocational training courses (information technology, commerce and marketing, and
optical technology) and has a total of about 700 students and more than 60
teachers.
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