The welcoming ceremony greeted both students and teachers from the other countries with a show of traditional dances of the region. All the school pupils, from pre-primary to secondary education, actively participated in this activity. Later on, we went to the theater in the village where the visitor students and some of the school secondary students made presentations about each country.

Erasmus+ visitors spent the second day in Òdena which let them learn about important monuments and emblematic places through touristic tours and visits around the village. They visited the large polygonal tower of the castle and its ruins and the remaining walls, the Romanesque chapel of Sant Miquel, the new library, and the plaster ovens. Next, different workshops were organized at school in order to deepen their knowledge about the host’s local patrimony. Moreover, a Flamenco workshop took place as a way to get into Spanish culture from this traditional dance. Last but not least, visitors toured around the school to get familiar with how the Spanish educational system works and what kind of methodologies take place at school.

The week offered a few sightseeing trips to different places around the Catalonia region. Starting in Montserrat Abbey, visitors were able to enjoy a concert by the boys’ choir called Escolania de Montserrat, they continued walking the area and ending by visiting the museum located there where art works from different historical periods and artists are shown. Besides, walking around Igualada and visiting the Leather Museum showed the participants the leather industry of the past of the town. Moreover, the group of castellers Moixiganguers showed the traditional human towers of the region.

A trip to Barcelona was organized The visitors attended an extraordinary “Flamenkat show” in Palau de la Música built by the architect Lluís Domènech i Muntaner. Then, they did some activities at Picasso’s Museum and, after that, they visited Sagrada Família and Casa Batlló buildings, both designed by the well-known architect Antoni Gaudí who popularized the “trencadís” technique -it consists of doing a mosaic-like effect, achieved by cementing together random shards and pieces of broken chinaware, piece by piece like a jigsaw. We experimented this technique in a workshop done at Maricel Museum, located in the coastal village of Sitges.