Teacher Training Courses - Why Portugal?
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INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE SANTARÉM
Teacher Training Courses
”Teaching tolerance, diversity and active citizenship in the 21st century classroom” SANTAREM, PORTUGAL
Why take part in a training course in Portugal?
Lisbon’s timeworn charm
“Set against the ever-present backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean, this dainty sun-kissed city lives in a Latin fairytale of timeworn manners and traditions,” says Telegraph Travel’s Lisbon expert, Guyan Mitra.
Santarém is the lively capital of the Lezíria do Tejo sub-region. Defending a plateau on the right bank of the Tagus River, the city of Santarém was the home of Portugal’s kings throughout the Middle Ages. It was also where the Cortes, the country’s earliest parliament would sit. This has left the city with Portugal’s finest ensemble of Gothic architecture, in its walls, churches, convents and isolated monuments like a Gothic fountain with a king’s seal.
The people
The Portuguese are amazing, friendly people who will make everyone feel at home.
The wine, of course
Portugal’s national drink (port or porto) is ubiquitous across the country, particularly in its eponymous home. Any bar and restaurant worth its salt will sell the fortified wine, but for larger quantities head to one of Portugal’s plentiful off-licences, which sell anything from dusty, 100-year-old bottles worth €1,000, to more affordable vintages.
Freshly-baked pastel de natas
Nowhere does custard tarts (or pastel de natas, as they’re called here) quite like Portugal. And perhaps nowhere in Portugal does them as well as Pasteis de Belém in Lisbon, which is why queues for the sweet, rich and perfectly crisp tarts often stretch along the pavement.
The weather
Perched on the western edge of Europe, Lisbon is the continent’s sunniest capital city, boasting an average of 2,799 hours of sunshine a year.
