ALCOVER MY TOWN

Gerard Girona Roca

Dani Pohrib

2n ESO

Institut Fons del Glorieta

Teacher: Míriam Martínez

Alcover. Alt Camp

LocationAlcover is near Tarragona and Port Aventura, the foothills of

the Sierra de Mussara. Its GPS coordinates are: UTM (ED50) 346875 4569725 31T. In Alcover reachable by car, train AVE (Camp de Tarragona railway station) or by plane to the airport of Reus-Barcelona .. Alcover is near Tarragona and Port Aventura, the foothills of the Sierra de Mussara. Its GPS coordinates are: UTM (ED50) 346875 4569725 31T. In Alcoverreachable by car, train AVE (Camp de Tarragona railway station) or by plane to the airport of Reus-Barcelona ..

Location map of Catalonia in Spain

It is located in Spain, in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, Tarragona province.

SOCIOECONOMIC ASPECTS

Alcover people live from agriculture, industry and services. Agriculture: Part of the population lives in the cultivation of land, basically nuts, olives and orchards in general. Industry: Cator, Rossita .... Services: It is the people who work for the people, such as doctors, teachers, benches ...

10%

52%5%

33%

Services

Farming Industry construction Services

65%

35%

Emigration

Immigration Emigration

88%

12%

Nacionalitation

Spanish Foreign

Climate and vegetationCLIMATE MEDITERRAIA

The average temperature is 15,9º C. Alcover Annual precipitation is 561 millimeters (mm). The driest month is July with 19 mm. VEGETATION The vegetation is Alcover pines, oaks, agaves , farigola.

Climate and vegetation

Pines

Agaves

Farigola

Oaks

The Alcover• POPULATION GROWTH

• We Were In 1998 Inhabitants 3664.

• And in 2006 the population increased and we were very 4.500habitants, but in 2010 we increased a lot and we get to 5143 inhabitants.

• The town of Alcover 2015 are now 5037 people in total.

CULTURAL HERITAGE

• Torres: Are the towers of the ancient walls of the Gothic fleet. Built in the fourteenth century.

• Bridge: The bridge is a monument of Moorish town of Alcoverprotected as cultural attractions.

• Holiday highlights: Can Cosme Vidal is a monument of the municipality of Alcover protected as cultural attractions. And of Renaissance style.

CULTURAL HERITAGE• Important characters: Ca cosme, Kiko Casillas and Jordi Iset.

Festivities: San Juan, Christmas Reyes, festival and fair.

Stone Fish: A fish that died and was padrificar within Larena. And the fish in.

Robbers fair

CULTURAL HERITAGE

Fair

MagicSan Juan

NATURAL HERITAGE• Mas del forès

• Its construction takes place during medieval times, as many other Catalan country has the characteristic of having been built in various stages of construction. It is an isolated house, located in a huge building with natural sources. The main building has a rectangular roof with two slopes; has added two in the front, advanced perpendicular sides and joined by a decorative beams and eaves.

NATURAL HERITAGENiu de l'àliga

· River Glorieta main ly known eagle nest is a tributary of the right bank of the Francoli. Born in Mont-ral, in the mountains of Prades, runs dry most of the upper section and through the town of Alcover before ending the municipality of El Morell, without hardly ever leave the Alt Camp.

Fonts del Glorieta• In total this institute are approximately 300 students.

There are a total of 30 menstres.

• Facebook:

• https://www.facebook.com/fontsdelglorieta/

• Alcover travels to: http://alcovertravelsto4.blogspot.com.es/

• Web page: http://agora.xtec.cat/sesfontsdelglorieta/