Languages, a vehicle for success

TEREZVAROSI COMMERCIAL SECONDARY SCHOOL is located in Budapest, where we held our fourth meeting since 18th to 24th of April 2009.
Four students and two teachers from Jimena Secondary School participated in this Comenius meeting

This school has three different buildings: General secondary technical education, Secondary vocational and post secondary vocational education and Practical commercial classes.
There are about 1100 students and 60 teachers in this school.
Currently 10 million people live within the borders of Hungary, while almost 25% live in the region of our capital city, Budapest.

Hungary is a small country in the heart of Europe. Also known as Magyarország, the country of the Magyar. They are a proud people with a rich cultural and linguistic heritage.

Migrating from the Ural Mountains 1,100 years ago under the leadership of King Arpad, they settled in the fertile farmland at the base of the Carpathian Mountains. This small country is one of the great survivors of history: states and empires emerged, expanded or disintegrated and disappeared around it. A stormy history?

The capital and the largest Hungarian city is Budapest; it is the heart, soul and memory of Hungary. Budapest, called ” the pearl of the Danube ” is crossed by the second river of Europe after the Volga which separates the historical city from Buda, right bank, to the more modern city of Pest, left bank.

Buda and Pest face on both sides the majestic Danube, which crosses several countries and follows a course of 2820 km between the Black Forest and the Black Sea. In Budapest the Danube is approximately in a little less than half of its course.

Budapest is a beautiful, vibrant city which has numerous fine buildings many of which were restored after the Second World War.