Oral presentation: "Montevideo's Prominade"

Montevideo's Prominade


Our  south waterfront promenade is called the "Rambla". It  is four thousand meters long. It  was built by the engineer Juan Pedro Fabini.
The "rambla" was built without respecting the geography places and part of the sea was included..A big wall had to be built to avoid flood.

The oceanographic museum 


The zoo museum Damaso Antonio Larrañaga has an interesting history. In 1936 (nineteen thirty six) it  was inaugurated as a bar called "marisco" ; after a short period of  time it became  a cabaret.
It was subsequently used as a morgue and cemetery in buceo. Before becoming a museum it was an oceanographic museum and fishing place.The building resembles a small palace of a fairy tale.

Lorena Gonzalez

Montevideo's prominade

Montevideo’s promenade is a long avenue that runs along the coast of the "Río de la Plata" in Uruguay.

It’s one of the best places for people to go driving, do sports like running, riding a bike and practising water sports or just to enjoy the view.

Along the promenade we can find many important neighbourhoods as well as museums and the yacht port. There are many new buildings along the prominade.

Montevideo's port is the main commercial  Uruguayan port.

In addition, Montevideo's port runs twenty- four hours a day throughout the year. 

Camila Biscotti

"La Rambla de Montevideo"

It is both an important vehicle lane and south of the bay of Montevideo is a pedestrian walkway. It  has  numerous beaches, among  which we can stand out the Ramirez, Pocitos, Buceo, Malvin and Carrasco beaches.

At  weekends, it attracts thousands of people of of all ages, who come for brisks walks, recreation, fresh air at several points, especially in the south promenade; it  is also a good place to go fishing.

 

 Apart from the activities mentioned, in  summer the beaches are crowded with thousands of Uruguayans as well as people from abroad.

In December one of the attractions is the night of the lights that attracts millions of people. There are also people running along the promenade and different kinds of competitions.

  

Camila Torres

"Río de Janeiro"

Lacation

Rio de Janeiro is located in the southeastern of Brazil.

It is the second most populous city in the country, with six million inhabitants.

The houses and buildings are mainly in ten low surfaces, but there are buildings everywhere.

Christ the Redeemer

The statue is seven hundred feed from the sea level, in the city of Rio de Janeiro

Specifically on the top of  “corcovado”mountain, Christ the redeemer is thirty meters high, its  construction lasted five years 

"Favelas"

The favelas are neighborhoods. There is one that you can visit, it is in  Copacabana neighborhood, it is one of the least dangerous.

There are one thousand of favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

Belén Maute

Río de Janeiro's Carnival - A Well Known Brazilian Festival

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is an anual celebration which occurs forty days before Easter. It is characteristic for throwing water from one person to another to purify the body.
The parade takes place in the "Sambadrome", it  is also sold by TV like football or the Olympic Games.
It is use four thousand people and ten cars each car for each schoolfor seven hundred eighty minutes delay meters and each schoolchooses a theme taken from the folklore.
each end of year two and a half million people go to the beachwhere they drink dig into a giant spectacle, are almost all dressed in white and is the last day of the year imanya emenajethe sea goddess.
throw flowers into the sea at twelve o'clock and fireworks each time longer and with more colors.

The following video shows a "Scola do Samba" called "Portela" which inaugurated the parade in 2011.

Rio de Janeiro is famous for its beaches among  which stands out

Copacabana. It  is one of the main beaches that tourists visit. There are many areas for the beach soccer and volleyball.

White sand and waves are found in Ipanema, its beach is  relatively large, and is famous because gays join in there.

In Botafogo we can see many shows and concerts by the sea.

Prainha beach  surrounded by mountains is the beach where most surfers        go.

                                                         Sofia Blanco

 

Lucia kovacs, Belen Maute and Sofia Blanco 

TOURISM

Rio de Janeiro attracts a great amount of national and International tourism .

People come in search of its beaches, its varied culture and a great night life.

50% of tourists come in order to get a job, other 29% come for pleasure,12% just for busness trips and the rest go to Rio for  others reasons.

The main tourist attractions are: football, beaches and its famous carnival.

Main destinations: - Copacaba and Ipanema beaches.

                                   - Christ Redeemer

                                   - Pan de Azucar Hill and Corcovado Hill.

                                  - Commercial centre of Rio de Janeiro

                                  - Botanic gardens

                                  - Favela of Copacabana

                                 - Sambodromo

Main food:-Tropical fruit juice

                   - Stew based on black beans  called “Fechoada”

Restaurants: There are - Japanese restaurants

                                            - Fast food restaurants

                                            - Buffet ones 

Lucia Kovacs

Oral presentation: "Rome"

Rome 

 It is an Italian city of 3 millon inhabitants, capital of the province of Rome, the Lazio region and capital of Italy.

It is the largest town and also the most populated of Italy and one of the largest European capital,  almost the majority  of its territory  is known as the Eternal City or “Città Eterna”.

The “Stadio Olimpico di Roma”  is a multipurpose stadium and the largest of Italy , but mainly devoted to soccer practice, located in the city of Rome, capital of the Lazio region of Italy. It serves as a regular venue for two major football teams of the city: The “AS Roma and The S.S.Lazio

Bruno Micalone