Presentatio about Galway

1. OUR TRIP TO GALWAY!

2. INDEX
1. BASIC FATS 9. THE FOOD
2. LANDMARK 10. OUR HOST FAMILY
3. ATLANTIC SCHOOL 11. NEW FRIENDS
4. SYMBOLS OF IRELAND 12. CONCLUSIONS
5. CONNEMARA-KYLEMORE ABBEY
6. THE CLIFFS
7. IRISH DANCE
8. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

3. BASIC FACTS GALWAY
• POPULATION:
-79.504
• CREATION:
- It has more than eight centuries
- It was constructed in 1124, by the King of Connacht.
- The river that goes across the city is called Corrib.

4. LANDMARK

5. ATLANTIC GALWAY SCHOOL

6. SIMBOLS OF IRELAND 1
-FLAG -LEPRECHAUM
-SHAMROCK

7. THE FLAG
• This tricolor flag is composed of three vertical stripes of
equal dimensions: green, white and orange.
• The green color represents the catholics, the white color represents
the peace and the orange color represents the protestants of Ireland.

8. SHAMROCK
• In Ireland the shamrock is very
important and acquires even more special
meaning on St Patrick´s day.
• The legends tells that Saint Patrick was next
to a group of Celts.

9. LEPRECHAUM
• Leprechaum is a male esprit who lives in
ireland.
• They usually adopt the form of
old men who enjoy doing pranks.

10. CONNEMARA-KYLEMORE
ABBEY
• On the way we saw different landscapes:

11. CONNEMARA-KYLEMORE
ABBEY
• At the place (Connemara-Kylemore Abbey):

12. CONNEMARA-KYLEMORE
ABBEY
• On the way back we saw more landsacape:

13. THE CLIFFS
The Cliffs of Moher was the best landscape in all the trip:

14. THE CLIFFS
• On the way back we visited a beach and a well:

15. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
• The funniest things that we did were:
The walking tour:
-St. Nicholas's Collegiate Church

16. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
-Galway Cathedral:

17. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
- Salmon Weir Bridge: -Spanish Arch:

18. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
-The claddagh: -Nora Barnacle House

19. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
-Eyre Square: -The city centre of Galway:

20. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
-The bowling: -The cinema:

21. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
• The Aquarium:

22. The Irish Dance
• We went to a dance academy at night and we learned differents steps
of the irish dance but it was a dissaster.
https://flipagram.com/f/10tdwDrbc30
In this link you can see the expectative vs reality.

23. OUR HOST FAMILY
• The host family of laura was called: Anne Sweeny and she had a son.
• The host family of Pablo and Dani was called: Eileen and she had a
daugther.
• The host family of Migue and Manolo was called: Mary and she had a
son and a daugther
• The host family of Marta and Ana was called: Maura and she had two
sons and a daugther.
All our families were the best!

24. OUR HOST FAMILY
• We only had a photo of Marta and Ana's family:

25. THE FOOD
• In Ireland they have different meal times and it was strange for us.
Also they put a lot of food in the plate.
-The dinner: -The dessert

26. NEW FRIENDS
We met spanish people because they were studying for a year here.
They are: Jose, Lulu and Lupi.

27. CONCLUSION
• We think that we have done the best trip ever! We would repeat this
journey 1000 times more because we had great moments, we
laughed and learned a lot with all the people there! And here there is
a summary of our trip to Galway: