Thursday 5 February 2009
Hi, I'm Claudia
Milian Claudia
My name is Milian Claudia, 16 years old. I am a sociable girl and I like making new friends. In my spare time I like going shopping or going out with my friends. My mail is iza_xxl@yahoo.com and my messenger id is iza_xxl.
Wednesday 4 February 2009
Town Hall
The building was developed by the architect Lechner Ödön in Budapest. The towe has 54 meters high, at the ornamentation you can see many Flemish Renaissance elements. From a red marble massive staircase lead up stair.s, where is an important festive hall.
Inauguration of the building took place in 1877, a year later was brought from Switzerland the clock that works today.
Orthodox Cathedral
The bedrock of the New Orthodox Cathedral of Arad called “Sfanta Treime” was put 15 years ago. It is an extremely valuable work, both spiritual and material. It is a monumental building, built in the Byzantine style in the shape of a cross, with a length of 61 m and 35 m wide at de bases and 25 m at the entrance, with an height of 61 m and can shelter over 4000 people. But the building is still in the finishing stage.
The Neptun Swimming Place
The swimming place is surrounded by the Mures river, on an area of 40 hectares of greenery. It is the second largest swimming place in Europe located near a flowing water. There are five pools ( a swimming pool, one for adults and three for kids with thermal water), more than 300 camping huts, over 100 clubs, restaurants, bars and entertaining locations. Also, there you can practice more sports like tennis, volleyball, roller-skates, running, and mini-football.
At night it became an attraction for the many known clubs. Yearly here come over 3,000,000 visitors.
The Ioan Slavici Theatre
In 1868, the leadership of the city decided to build the City Hall and the Theatre. Thus, in 1872 was started and completed in 1874. It is a neoclassical building with three levels, the main hall had a capacity of 1200 seats.
At the opening festivity Franz Jozef, the Emperor of the Austro Hungarian Empire also attended.
After seven years a fire destroyed the building. The rebuilding was made by Halmay Andor, and know the main hall has 562 seats and in 1959 after another fire the building was completely restored. The gable on the main façade was decorated with a bas-relief.
In 1967 inside the theater there was arranged a small show hall, known by the people as the “Studio” hall.
The Fortress of Arad
The Fortress of Arad was built by Maria Teresa’s demand, and it was built between 1763-1783 through the plans of Ferdinan Philipp Harsch.
The Fortress of Arad played an important role in the revolution in 1848-1849, being besieged for long time. From within the fortress the Austrian army bombed the city for 8 months with over 40.000 projectiles. Now the fortress is a museum and also accommodates a unit from the Romanian Army.
The Cutural Palace
The Cultural Palace is one of the most representative buildings for the visitors of our city. This impressive building was built between 1911-1913. The building displays a variety of styles. The Neoclassical style facade is ornated with a pediment supported by massive Corinthian columns , and above it there is a massive tower. The Side wings are dominated by elements of the Italian Renaissance style.
Arad - Historical and chronological dates
The Hungarian Kingdom stretched their domination on Arad in XI-th century, Arad was certified as a town in 1329.
The Ottomans conquered the city in 1552, it’s only period of independence was on the time when Michael the Brave lived.
In 1687 Arad is conquered by the Habsburg Empire, and in 1834 Arad won the independence.
The Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga compares Arad with Vienna during the documentation trip that he made in 1906.
In 1870 Arad was the most populated town in Transylvania, with a population over 32,000 inhabitants.
As a result of economic bloom there have appeared some important objectives as garments factory (1867), the gas factory (1868), the brick factory(1869), and the furniture factory (1878).
Arad was in full ascent after the Great Unification placing on fourth place in Romania in 1937, with more than 4,000 companies registered at the Chamber of Commerce.
New industries have developed with related structures like toy factory (1959), factory clocks (1960) and chemical plant (1971).
Hi, my name is Vesa Rafaela
My email address is: jaja_ra@yahoo.com
Hey, my name is Naaji Laith
Hey, my name is Naaji Laith and I'm 16 years old. I am half Romanian, half Arabian from Jordan. My hobbies are sports such as football and tennis and many others. I like to spend my free time sitting on the internet, but in the same time I like going out with friends in town or going to the disco. I like listening to music a lot. Besides I like traveling and visiting new places because I can make new friends and see beautiful views. See you soon!!
My email address is: naaji_laith@yahoo.co.uk
Hi, it's me Edy
Hello, my name is Edy. I went to your school 2 years ago and I liked it very much. This is one of the main reasons why I want to come again. My hobbies are trains and everything about them and sports I like skiing. I hope to see you all soon.
My email address is: csukas_eduard@yahoo.com
Hi, my name is Cosmin Tanase
Hey I’m Cosmin Bahnean
Hi, my name is Claudiu
Hello, my name is Alex
Hey I'm Alexandra
Friday 30 January 2009
Hi, I'm Andrei from Romania
but I'd prefer to talk on this new one: andrei.rosca09 .
These are some pictures of me and my family:
Sunday 25 January 2009
I like going out with my friends and going to the disco on Saturday night.
My hobbies are football, tennis, watching TV and listening to a lot of music.
I don' t like reading and studying, howether I' m quite good at school .
I' ve got two sisters: a twin, Martina, and another sister, Elena; she is seven years old.
I went TO romanian last year with mY school friends Filippo, Giulio and Gregory: I liked it so much!!!
My Romanian partner was Edy, and I'm staying with him this year too because he is a nice and a good boy.
The Carnival Season is a holiday period during the two weeks before the traditional Christian fasting of Lent. The name comes from the Italian 'carnevale', derived from the Latin carnem (meat) and vale (farewell), hence "farewell to meat" or "farewell to the flesh", letting go of the bodily self. But the origin of Carnevale is older than Christianity, and dates back to Roman time Saturnalia, Saturn's festival, a sort of spring festival characterized by wanton behavior. This spirit of celebration has been transmitted to the Carnival.
CARNIVAL IN VERONA
Carnival in Verona dates back to 1531 and is one of the oldest in Italy. That year, due to a food shortage grain prices rose, poor people, especially in the old St Zeno's area, one of the biggest and more crowded in town, were facing starvation. Tommaso Da Vico, a wealthy noble, decided to donate a huge sum for poor people to buy flour to make gnocchi, small dumplings that at that time were poor people main sustenance. In his will Da Vico ordered to distribute every year, on carnival last friday, gnocchi and wine to people of St Zeno's area. That's how Veronese Carnival had its origin. Nowadays, on carnival last friday, called Venerdi' gnocolar', gnocchi's friday, a big parade ending in front of St. Zeno church rides the streets of Verona. The parade is led by Papa' de' gnocco, gnocchi's dad, a mask representing an old king holding, instead of a scepter, a huge fork topped by a big gnocchi. The man who wears the costume is publicly elected in St. Zeno square a month before carnival. Candidates try to buy people's vote offering gnocchi and wine! Verona's spectacular carnival includes a grand parade of masks and an historical Regatta on the river Adige.
the famous mask called 'gnocchi's dad'
two veronese carnival's wagon
Saturday 24 January 2009
HELLO! I'm Catalin
My favourite hobby is cycling in the forest and using the computer.
In the end I'd like to wish you all a happy cultural exchange!
Thursday 22 January 2009
Wednesday 21 January 2009
near the football stadium of Verona.
I’m 17 years old and I like going to the city centre
with my school friends. On Saturday night I like going
to pubs or going to the disco, but sometimes I want to relax
at home.
when I don’t have the match with my team.
Sometimes I go to see some volleyball matches at the “palazzetto” ,
a structure near the football stadium.
This is the team with which I had my debut in the promotion league.
Me and my brother are very friendly and sometimes we go out together. We love motorbikes and he teaches me lots of things about them.
Hi I'm Alessio
Hi my name is Alessio, I'm 17 years old and I'm from Pescantina(near Verona).
I like to stay with my friends and have fun...but I like to stay at home and relax too.
I've played tennis for many years since I was a child but now I've got the hobby of the music; infact in my free time I like listening to music (I like rock music very much ) and play guitar ,alone or with some friends all togheter, I like to play videogames or use the computer too.
Sometimes in the summer I play football or tennis with my friends.
My favourite kinds of films are adventure films and thrillers...but sometimes I like to relax with some comic film.
By this cultural experience I'd like to meet new people and have fun with my new friends; but I'd like to visit another country too.
Hi, my name is Giulia, I'm still 17 but I'll be 18 quite soon. I like meeting new people, I get on well with everyone, because I'm very friendly. I'm a quite good painter and drawer, I also read a lot of books. I don't like hilarious films like American films or similar things. Listening to music is another of my hobbies, I love Pink Floyd, nothing else can be compared with them.Last but not least, Horse riding is what i prefer the most, I've got a horse who's called Swinger. See you soon =)
Monday 19 January 2009
Hi! l'm Claudio!
I like staying with my friends most, but I have other interests such as fencing, playing the guitar and dancing(I'm attending a school of dance with my bestfriend Gaia and now we are learning tango!).
In the first photo you can see me (stretched out) with my friends and in the second one I'm playing my acoustic guitar.
I hope that I'll enjoy this cultural exchangevery much ! See you soon!! Bye!
Sunday 18 January 2009
I introduce myself
Hello..My name is Filippo and I live in a town called PESCANTINA near the city centre of Verona.
I'm 17 years old and I love going out with my friens and staying in a bar rather than going to the cinema or going to the city centre especially at night...
I like all sports very much : from football to going to the swimming pool, tennis, volleyball, table tennis, snowboard and a lot of others... I play football in the team of my town as you can see from the photo..
..Or beachvolley..
In my last summer holiday I took same photos with my friend Ale in a ''paradise'' like Villasimius, in Sardinia...
...If you don't believe me look at the images....
In this photo we were in a small small boat>>>>
I have already done an exchange with Romania and I enjoyed this experience very much ....so I've decided to go back to my rumanian friends...see you soon..bye!!
Tuesday 13 January 2009
Welcome to the Twin towns Verona Arad blog!!
Please join this blog to exchange news with your Italian partners about yourselves, Arad, your school, the places you like going to with your friends, your hobbies, etc.
I hope you will enjoy this activity.
Any posts will be welcome.
See you soon,
Agnese & Erika
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