Introducción

The I.E.S. María Soliño secondary school in Cangas do Morrazo - Spain - has taken part in the so-called "The popular traditions: the Carnival" Comenius project during the school period 2001-2002. Istituto Magistrale P. Villari, Naples - Italy - and Liceul Commercial M. Kogalniceanu, Focsani - Romania - schools have also taken part in this project.

So as to develop this project a material collection was carried out, as much on the part of the students as of the teachers, which was completed with the production of the following works:

A projection of old pictures.

A multidisciplinary exhibition including:

Old, current photographs and ballads of the carnival in the area.

Handmade masks by the students.

Public performance of the interviews and songs collected by the students.

Viewing homemade videotapes about the carnival in the area.

Designing for the present website with the following structure:

An approach to the topic of the carnival from three points of view:

The existence of similar festivals to the carnival, from Classical times

The carnival in Galicia, taking as example four of the most representative manifestations

The prohibitions that this celebration suffered throughout the history on the part of the authorities.

The festival of the Carnival in the area where the school centre is located i.e. the city council of Cangas do Morrazo, more specifically that one of the parishes of O Hío and Aldán and the urban centre of Cangas, too. This information is completed with pictures of carnival times taken before 1975, also in the last 25 years and some of them taken in the school centre.

Some of the works, carried out by the students on this celebration, include:

information picked up on each one of the previous aspects

writings on our own experiences of the carnival

preparation of attractive posters with poems

handmade masks

These works were carried out in History, Classical Culture, Design, Spanish Language and Galician Language lessons by students of ESO (compulsory education) and Bacharelato (non obligatory education); the students who participate in them are also listed below with links to their respective works.

For the elaboration of these websites we have used pictures given by the Cultural Association A CEPA, Carlos Martínez García and other members of the carnival groups in Aldán and O Hío; apart from Suso Lorenzo and school students. Material about the topic of the carnival in Galicia was also taken from some internet pages, which we recommend:

	The Carnival in Ourense
	Verín, Laza and Xinzo da Limia
	Information from Vieiros server, with links to this celebration in Galicia and to other places in the world
	Special information about it from Cultura Galega server, as well
	The Ulla area
	Xinzo da Limia
	Vilariño de Couso
	The old time Carnival, in Moaña
	Pictures from Xulio Vilariño on the carnival in the southern Galicia
	Special one from La Voz de Galicia newspaper

The complete text of this work in Galician language can be downloaded in a zip file (476 KB), by pressing the button