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Thursday 29 February 2024

SECOND PART EXCHANGE 2023-24: WELCOME & INFORMATION

Welcoming this year's student exchange.




A Coruña:





A Coruña is a capital province city in Spain in the autonmous community of Galicia.
An important historical port, it's located on the North West coast of the Iberian peninsula. The centre of the city extends over a peninsula linked to firm land by a narrow neck of land, so it shows two sea fronts: the docklands, towards the sea inlet, and the other to the open sea towards the Orzán bay, and in which the main urban beaches extend Riazor & Orzán.
A Coruña municipality has a population of 247.376 inhabitants (2023), the second most populated in Galicia after Vigo. A metropolitan area has developed around the city that, together with the metropolitan area of nearby Ferrol, make up a conurbation of 648.983 inhabitants which is a bit more than half the province's population and nearly a fourth part of the whole Galician community. Its population density is the highest in all Galicia and one of the highest in the whole of Spain (6472 hab/km2). Most of the surface devoted to industry is located in the neighbouring municipality of Arteixo, one of the most industrialized in Galicia. So the city is mostly devoted to the service sector. Its secondary sector is centered mainly around the docks and the oil refinery. Its climate is oceanic with mild temperatures throughout the year.
The city has 12 private schools, 26 public ones, 17 secondary schools and 3 univeristies throughout its municipality. A Coruña University has its Assembly Hall in the old town, and several campus around the city: Elviña, Zapateira, Riazor and Oza and in Ferrol. Currently the Univerisity has 26.000 students and offers degrees which are unique in Galicia and even in all the North West area of the peninsula, such as architecture, industrial design, naval engineering, road, channel and dock engineering, sociology and political and administration sciences.
In the neighbouring municipality of Arteixo we find the general headquarters of Inditex, the world's greatest textile group (owner of the popular brands Zara, Pull and Bear, Bershka & Massimo Dutti, among others) and whose influence in the city has been decisive. Apart from the important port activity (second port in Galicia in fresh fish and also of petrol and solid goods) which have made it Galicia's main port in traffic numbers. A Coruña's airport (Alvedro), located offers regular flights to important Spanish cities and some European destinations, with a growing number of passengers in the last decade.

The most important and popular sport team of the city is the Real Club Deportivo of A Coruña, founded in 1906, which has achieved 6 titles. One league Championship in the First Division (99-00), 2 King's Cups and 3 Spanish Supercups. The Deportivo has been second in Spain's league 5 times and has taken part 5 consecutive seasons in the Champions League reaching Semifinals once. Important football matches are played at the Riazor stadium.
Santiago:


Santiago de Compostela is a city in Spain, in the province of A Coruña. It's the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, and it's the seat of the Galician autonomic government (Xunta de Galicia) and the Galician Parliament.
Santiago's old town is Unesco Human Heritage Site since 1985. It's one of the three great Christian pilgrim sites, together with Jerusalem and Rome, as tradition sets it as the burial place of the apostle Saint James, the Great. The Cathedral has special artistic importance, devoted to this apostle, and its the final destination of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world who walk the different Saint James Ways.
Nearby the city is the Santiago de Compostela airport, the busiest in Galicia. It's also the site of a 5 hundred-year-old University, placed among the 10 best in Spain and with about 30.000 students, which helps to increase the population of Santiago and its metropolitan area over 200.000 inhabitants.





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