Created by some of my students. María Jesús Campos, teacher in a bilingual section in Madrid.

1. Spain
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will find it
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Created by Alberto Saiz, Raquel Reyero, Guillermo Pérez de
Arenaza, Sara de la Garma

2. Click me to know
more information
about Spain!!!
Click me to know
more information
about Madrid, the
capital city of
Spain!!!
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more information
about
Alcorcón, the city
in which we live!!!
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more information
about high school
Parque de Lisboa!!!

3. Spain
as a country
SPAIN
FRANCE
Capital City
Madrid
Paris
Surface Area
504 645 km²
675 417 km²
Type of Goverment
Parliamentary
Unitary semi-presidential
Constitutional Democratic constitutional republic
Monarchy
Population
47 129 783 inhabitants
65.578.819 inhabitants
It is divided in….
17 autonomous
communities and 2
autonomous cities
27 régions (22 in Europe
and the other 5 in
overseas

4. Spain
as a country
SPAIN
FRANCE
Current coin
Euro
Euro
Former coin
Peseta
French Franc
Plus Ultra
Spanish
Motto
(“far
beyond”)

6. Madrid
the capital city
• Madrid is the capital city of Spain and of
the autonomous community of Madrid
• It has 3 207 247 inhabitants, and it is the
third most populated city in Europe
• In Madrid you can visit Puerta del Sol, the
Cibeles fountain, the Plaza Mayor, the
Gran Vía, the Retiro Park…
• Madrid is a city to enjoy. Christmas is the
best season to visit it.

8. Alcorcón
The adyacent city
• Alcorcón is a city located in the south-west of
Madrid, and it is 13 km far from the capital.
• Our population is of 169,773 inhabitants.
• Its name comes from the “alcornoque” tree (cork
tree).
• Our main church is called “Santa María la Blanca”
and it is located in the centre of Alcorcón.
• Other interesting places to visit are:
– Parque Polvoranca
– Museum of Glass

10. Parque de Lisboa
Our high school
• It is a bilingual high school, we learn English as it
is our native language.
• Located in the Parque de Lisboa
neighborhood
• It was created in 1989 as Alcorcón V, but it later
changed its name to Parque de Lisboa
• It has received a lot of prizes and won a lot of
knowledge contests.
• We are over 700 students and 50 teachers.

11. Parque de Lisboa
• We have 17 hours of subjects in English out
of 32, 13 in Spanish and 2 hours of French
• It has coordinated and participated in lots of
Comenius’ projects, exchanges, etc. We are
used to receive foreign students and we treat
them as students of the school.
• There´s a great atmosphere among teachers
and students. When you come, you will feel
as if you were in your home.

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