Thursday, February 22, 2007
Ferreries
Hello friends:
We are the students of Year 4 of Castell de Santa Àgueda Primary School of Ferreries (Menorca). We send you this letter to tell you how was and how is Ferreries.
Ferreries was founded in 1303, when king James II built a church: Sant Bartomeu’s Church.
Some houses were built next to the church. Ferreries was very small, four streets, and there were 40 people living there.
The oldest streets in Ferreries are the streets near the church.
Many years ago, people worked in farms: look after animals and plants. On Sundays people who lived in farms came to pray to the church (town centre) and they also sold the food they made.
Many years ago, people were poor.
In the XVIII century Ferreries grew more. From 1960 Ferreries grew more and more.
Nowadays, in Ferreries there are some factories and a very important tourist resort: Cala Galdana.
We hope you have enjoyed.
See you soon.
Students of Year 4.
