La Sénia Highschool is located in la Sénia, Spain and has approximately 400 students. It focuses on an eTwinning project with the nearby town of Rossell. Rossell has a population of furniture workers and is located in the Baix Maestrat region. It is surrounded by four natural parks - Delta de l'Ebre, Ports de Tortosa-Beceite, Maestrazgo, and Tinença de Benifassar. These parks are home to native wildlife like the Beceite ibex and provide scenic landscapes of mountains, rivers, forests and coastal waters.

1. La Sénia Highschool etwinning
Project

2. La Sénia Highschool
● It has up to 400 students from la Sénia and the nearby town Rossell.

3. Our town & environment
ROSSELL

4. ROSSELL

5. ● Rossell is a municipality in the comarca of Baix Maestrat in
Comunitat Valenciana, Spain.

6. Municipal term of Rossell

8. Terres de l’Ebre Biosphere Reserve
It is home of many ecosystems
running from the Mediterranean
coast up to the mountains and
travesing the gentle waters of
Cervol River.

9. ● Rossell is located in the north
part of Baix Maestrat.

10. Rossell has two small villages: Bel and Les Cases del
Riu
● BEL ● LES CASES DEL RIU

11. The furniture industry in Rossell
● The economy is based on poor dry farming and a more flourishing industry (furniture,
textiles, food) aided by the exploitation of farms of pigs, chickens and rabbits.

12. Naturals parks of the area
● It includes four natural parks nearby; Delta de l'Ebre, the Ports of Tortosa-Beceite, Maestrazgo and Téndez de Benifassar. From this
bridge with the ports of Tortosa-Beceite, Maestrazgo and Tinença de Benifassar.

13. Ports de Tortosa-Beceite
● The ports of Tortosa-Beseit are a mountainous massif located on the eastern
end of the Iberian system and which constitutes a transition zone in the
Prelitoral Catalonian Serralada.

14. ●
The fauna of this natural park is important since it is a sub-species of the typical ibex, this is the beceite-ibex.
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There is also wild boar and birds, vultures.

15. ● The flora of this landscape is characterized by the large pine
woods, there are also oaks.

16. Maestrazgo● Maestrazgo refers to the territories that were under the power of the Grand Master. Geographically
and historically this term may refer to:
● The historic district of El Maestrazgo, which includes areas of both the province of Teruel and
Castellón. Its limits and populations do not have to coincide with those of the current regions.
● The Teruel region of Maestrazgo.
● The Castellón region of Alto Maestrazgo.
● The Castellón region of Bajo Maestrazgo.

17. ● In this landscape, it is also very important to point out the beceite-ibex, since in this sub-species it is in beceite-ibex
of Maestrazgo, it is more southwards in the mountains of Teruel. There are also large populations of wild boars, in
this area, different roe deer and some cervols begin to emerge.

18. ● It is characterized by the large extenciones of sown, distributed
by the different valleys and hills.

19. Tinença de Benifassar
The Tenure of Benifasar (Tinença de Benifassà or Setena de Benifassà in Valencian) is a
sub-county of the province of Castellón that is considered as a historical region of the
Valencian Community, although it is assimilated to the region of the Bajo Maestrazgo in the
absence of regulations of regionalization in the autonomy, although its historical connection is
more firm with the region of Los Puertos de Morella and the districts of Tarragona. In 2006 the
Valencian Government declared the Natural Park Tenure.

20. ● The most abundant are wild boars and beceite-ibex, there are also corzos, cervans and muflons that
escaped from an area destined for hunting.

21. ● The mushrooms are very important in this area, there are also pine trees, holm oaks.
In this place there is a centennial oak and a pine that measures 4.2 meters in
diameter.

22. Delta de l’Ebre
● The Natural Park of the Ebro Delta is located at the mouth of the Ebro River, in the province of Tarragona, in the
counties of Montsià and Baix Ebre, in the most southern part of the Principality of Catalonia. A protected area
was declared in 1983, and extended later in 1986 with an area of 7,736 hectares.​​

23. ● There are different animals, birds and fish, since it
is the nature park of the area that is bathed by
Mediterranean waters.
– Mammals: water rat, musaranya ...
– Reptiles: Water spurt, pond turtle ...
– Amphibians: green frog
– Fish: carp, smooth, eel, sea bass, urine, siluro.
– Birds: moorings, waders, chasms, flamingos,
passerines, sea bass, ducks and geese, ardeids, birds
of prey, eapó and becplaner, gulls, cabussons, ...

24. ● It is characterized by the great extensions of the cultivation of the roots, many areas of
stubble that makes a great refuge for the fauna of the area.

25. ● Sant Antoni 9,10,11 of February

26. Parties and fairs in Rossell
● Fira De Sant Josep 23,24,25 of March

27. ● Festes d’agost. 6-19 of august

28. Typical foods
● Rossell's main typical meal is the pot, which is typical of the carnival season,
carries carnival balls, rib, butifarra, broth and cardets.

29. ● The other typical Rossell food is a dessert, this dessert is the
pastries that consist of a paste full of angel hair. These are
distributed to San Antonio.