IES “Turgalium”

In the town of Trujillo, Cáceres, it began as a professional school. Today it is a Secondary and Professional school with about 400 students and a staff of 45 teachers.

On the road Madrid/ Lisbon with an area of 20.000 square metres, it has a main building housing the classrooms for secondary education and for professional studies, the staff and management offices, another building housing some technology workshops, a cafeteria, and a gymnasium, all this surrounded by a large playground where school life develops at break time.

The school provides secondary education from the 1^st year of E.S.O., students aged 12, to the 2^nd year of Bachillerato, students aged 17.

The professional studies include two levels: the basic level of Administrative Management and the high level of Financial Management.

SCHOOL LOCATION

INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA, "TURGALIUM"

Carretera Madrid-Lisboa Km. 252

10200 TRUJILLO (CÁCERES)

Tlf: 927 32 13 07, Fax: 927 32 13 09
E-mail: ies.turgalium@edu.juntaextremadura.net

www.iesturgalium.juntaextremadura.net

SCHOOL FACILITIES

THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY

Most of the students come from villages around Trujillo: Zorita, Madroñera, Torrecillas de la Tiesa, Garciaz, Aldea Centenera, Belén, Herguijuela. They use school buses. The students from Trujillo come on foot, although the school is on the outskirts it is just a fifteen minutes walk from the center of the town, or by car.

Many teachers live in the nearby capital town of Cáceres, so they usually travel the 48 km between the two towns.

   The Comenius group

            Teachers singing on Peace Day

THE TOWN

Trujillo   has a population of 9219 inhabitants. It is 47 km from Cáceres, the capital town of the province, and

about 200 km from Madrid.

Besides the Castle, from where you can look down to the village and plains around it, a variety of 16th- and 17th-century palaces, manor houses, towers, churches, and arcades encircle the Plaza Mayor and overlook a bronze equestrian statue of Pizarro, conqueror of Peru. Steep, narrow streets and shadowy little corners in the old quarter of the town are worth visiting.

El Chíviri on Resurrection Sunday, The National Cheese Fair, and the feasts in honour of Virgen de la Victoria are the best known events in the town.

Magnificent pork products, sheep and goat cheese and excellent wines are just a sample of the gastronomy of the area, with typical dishes such as migas (bread based dish), caldereta (lamb stew) or moraga (roasted pork meat)