School educational program in Sobrarbe Geopark
All schoolchildren of Sobrarbe from 3-12 years participate in the educationalprogram Sobrarbe Geopark
This third edition has been focused on the World Heritage Sobrarbe and the importanceof pastoral activity since prehistoric times
Sobrarbe Geopark has developed during May 2015 an educational program to promote knowledge oflocal people about the properties inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO which are located init, paying special attention to the role played by the pastoral activity in the landscape drawing and theconfiguration of our current heritage.It is an activity funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of Spainand the Sobrarbe County.
The protagonists are all children from 3-12 years of Sobrarbe County, and in a second term, parents,teachers and the general public.
Thanks to the collaboration from all schools from Sobrarbe, students were able to visit two placesclosely related to pastoral activity from prehistoric times: Tella, in the environment of Well Pyrenees-Monte Perdido, World Heritage, and Lecina, in the Cultural Park Vero River, where an important groupof rupestrian paintings done by the first shepherds who lived in the Neolithic Sobrarbe isconcentrated.
In these places have enjoyed interesting workshops to learn how to interpret the landscape, know theoffice of shepherd, discover how the shepherds of the Neolithic made cave paintings, visit the shelterwith schematic rock art in Barfaluy, or meet some of our legends and traditions.
Furthermore, in all of them have worked concepts like “what is the heritage and why it is so necessaryfor the protection and safeguarding”, with particular emphasis on wells of Sobrarbe inscribed on theWorld Heritage List: the Well Pyrenees-Monte Perdido and Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on theIberian Peninsula.
This program aims to increase the knowledge of local people about Sobrarbe Geopark and the WorldHeritage sites that are part of it, spread the rich heritage of Sobrarbe, sensitize the local populationabout the importance of research, restoration, conservation and protection of our cultural and naturalheritage and promote the strengthening of collective identity through appreciation or revaluation ofendogenous resources.
For the proper development of the program, it has had the invaluable collaboration of schools fromSobrarbe, of the municipalities of Bárcabo and Tella-Sin, the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Parkand the River Vero Cultural Park, as well as the work of different companies and professionals in thefields of environmental education and dissemination of the heritage of our territory such as IgnacioPardinilla Bentué, Aviva Rural or Senderos Ordesa.
This program, which began in 2013, hopes to have continuity over time so that the differentgenerations of schoolchildren in Sobrarbe know, from early childhood, the rich cultural and naturalheritage of the area in which they live and grow in inside sensitivity to protect and safeguard it.
See program of Aragon Television (Tempero, chapter 334), where a report was issued: http://alacarta.aragontelevision.es/programas/tempero/
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