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Sustainable tourism fair

Set up

We chose the area of sustainable tourism as one of the potential economic resource and areas of employment of the future.

We carried out a research on Boiro’s heritage: environmental (the rivers, the Barbanza mountain range, the sea, flora and fauna) historical (monumental and popular architecture) and intangible (celebrations, sayings, songs and food)e.

We tried to promote sustainable tourism as a way to contribute both to the preservation of the unique values of our local area and to its economic development.

We organised a sustainable tourism fair in wich each group tried to attract tourists by displaying information on the heritage values of a chosen area through information stands. We all did our best to prepare the most appealing stands.

Riverside landscape

We displayed information on Boiro rivers. We recreated a

river ecosysteme and distributed hand made pins among the

public. We all shared a delicious sponge cake.

Flora from the mountains and the valley

Our aim was to createawareness and knowledge of our native flora.

We collected plants, flowers, fruits and seedpods from thearea.

We related the flora to ourlocal traditions and celebrations (Saint John night), prepared herbal drinks(fennel tea), carried outgames and even collectedsignatures to raise awarenesson the need to protect ourenvironment.

Monumental architecture

The Goians palace is one of the most significant examples of monumental architecture in Boiro and was one of the themes of our fair.

We will all love to have the palace restored and open to the public.

Popular architecture

Granaries, barns, houses, fountains, watermills, fords,

are some of the examples of our abundant popular

architecture.

The sea

The sea is part of oureveryday life, and as such, it was present in our fair.

We have both sea and mountain at walkingdistance.

We try to promote use and enjoyment of thesea with preservation of the sand duneenvironment.

Our intangible heritage

Now that summer iscoming we can enjoydifferent traditionalfestivities. Our favouriteis San Ramón romeria.

Some of us have beenpractising hard for theanual threshing bee.

We shared traditionaltales, sayings and songs.

We shared home madebread.

Conclusions

We learnt a great dealabout our own local area, and now we value more our heritage.

We had great funorganising the sustainabletourism fair and visitingone another stands.

Students and teachersfrom the whole schoolcame to learn with us.

Everybody is invited to visit Boiro!

Bibliography and authorship

The authors of the sustainable tourism fair are: Miguel

Ángel Araújo Pérez, Ana Bugallo Sánchez, Christian

Bustelo Yáñez, José Cabrera Allal, Carlos Cajaraville

Lojo, Sergio Calo Oliveira, Manuel Campos García,

Óscar Castro García, Alex Ferreirós Laíño, Agustín R.

Figueira Cárcamo, Ignacio E. Figueira Cárcamo, Rubén

García Ces, Alba García Nieto, Tareixa Gómez Silva,

Jorge Gónzalez Vilarnovo, Jennifer Lago Piñeiro, Raúl

Lapido Iglesias, Mauro Lojo Vidal, Carlos Lorenzo

Ramallo, Julia Martínez Tomé, Juan C. Miguéns

Sánchez, José A. Mirón Sampedro, Alejandro Muñiz da

Costa, Rubén Muñiz Treus, Samuel Muñiz Vidal, Sara

Outeiral Lago, Yanira Piñeiro Triñanes, Sonia Pouso

Sobrado, Valeria Rial Redondo, Hugo Riveiro Fidalgo,

Javier Rodríguez Fernández, Mª Camila Rodríguez

Soto, Elías Romero Tubío, María Saborido Gey, Esther

Sánchez Calo, Sara Santamaría Martínez, Martín Seco

García, Andrea Suárez Sánchez, Lara Tarrío Moreno.

Sabela Cobas was the teacher who help us do this

project.

This project was carried out mainlythrough fieldwork and research onprimary sources.

All the photographs were taken by us, excepto for the old fishermen photographs, wich belongto Raul Lapido family álbum.

We would like to thank our neighbours, Friends and family for helping us in our research. ThisProject would not have been posible withoutthem.

We used information from Boiro tourist brochures: http://www.boiro.org

Domínguez Lerena, S e Martínez Rodríguez, E. (2003): Os segredos das árbores (Guía informativa. Xunta de Galicia.

Caamaño, M. (2009): Galicia as construcións da arquitectura popular. Editorial Hércules.