Paralias High School of Kalamata,
Greece
Paralias High School of Kalamata is a secondary school that provides general education, with 290 pupils, from 12 to 15 years old and 29 teachers. It is situated in Kalamata, a town of 69,000 inhabitants, in an area of archaeological interest with rapid touristic development. Our motivation to participate in this project is to motivate and help our pupils learn in an experiential way and develop the sense of Europen citizenship though the knowledge of European culture. Paralias High School is the coordinator school of the project. The teachers participating in Erasmus team are: Kallirroy Konstantopoulou (coordinator), Maria Stamatopoulou, Antonia Leventi, Eleni Vasilopoulou, Ioannis Fragoulis, Annie Theodarakakou, Themistoclis Ntaveas.
Kalamata
Kalamata is a town in the south of Greece. It is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula, after Patras, in southern Greece. It lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf.
It has about 69,000 inhabitants Kalamata is renowned for Kalamata olives.
The history of Kalamata begins with Homer, who mentions Firai, an ancient city built more or less where the Kalamata Castle stands today. Kalamata was occupied by the Ottomans from 1481 to 1685, like the rest of Greece. The Venetian Republic ruled Kalamata from 1685 as part of the "Kingdom of the Morea". Kalamata was the first city to be liberated as the Greeks rose in the Greek War of Independence on the 23rd of March 1821. Kalamata has now developed into a modern provincial capital and has returned to growth during the recent years.
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