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Tuition Programs

• 1 lesson: 45 minutes
• Minimum age: 17
• Schedule: from 9:00 AM
• Maximum 5 students per class
• 30 lessons per week: 20 group and 10 privat.
• All levels available
• Excursions included for all programs 3 afternoons per week.
• Latin rhythms and traditional dances discovery (cha cha cha, Merengue, Salsa, Cumbia) 2 times a week
• Test and certificate of attendance
• School materials
• D.E.L.E.: 35 lessons per week split in 25 lessons in the morning (9 AM - 1:30 PM) and 10 private in late the afternoon (8 PM to 9: 30 PM)
• Specific language skills: 25 lessons per week. Excursions can be substitute with a work experience (3 times a week) in your field (law, medicine, tourism, business).

Starting Dates

All courses start on the following dates:

Closing Dates

Options Available

• Journée supplémentaire: 
             En famille: 23$US.

• Transfert aéroport à l'arrivée: 20$US

• Cours privé: sur demande

• Cours pour professeurs d'espagnol: sur demande: Juillet et décembre.

• Our prices are available from January 1st
  to December 31, 2002.
  These prices never include the Air Fare.

Here the differents excursions available:

• Pampatar, its fortress Santiago de La Caranta (1586)
• La Asunción with the oldest church in south america and Santa Rosa castle.
• El Valle del Espiritu Santo
• Juan Griego: its fortress La Galera (1811)
• National park of La Restinga (lagoon).
• and all beaches Margarita Island can offer. 

Costs

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Family accommodation. Hotel or furnished apartment upon request.

• Family, single occupancy, 2 meals per day

• Arrival on sunday.

• Daparture on saturday
  

Our greeting families are recruited with great care. The criteria of selection are very rigorous and each family must satisfy a precise schedule of conditions: excellent morality, desire to communicate with their host, satisfactory social standing.

We should specify that the families will only speak with you the language of the country where you will be. It is the principle of the immersion courses!

Margarita" The Caribbean pearl ". From the very beginning the island always had it's arms open to everyone, with generosity and kindness.  This land welcomes, feeds and provides all cures for navigators either coming or going. An island of relaxation and love where nobody leaves completely because of the best feelings stay behind.  

Margarita offers lots of sunshine, a tropical climate, multiple color surfaces with zones of  leafy green mountains, xerophyte vegetation, wonderful weather, miles and miles of intense blue beaches,  solitary places where you can find yourself again, very cosmopolitan cities and quaint villages with their customs and traditions still intact.

However it is our people´s  happy and friendly ways and their quick speech  spiced with that hot latin temperament what will make you surrender your heart to this little heaven on earth.

When, from 1534 to 1542, Nueva Cádiz (Cubagua Island) had jurisdiction over Margarita, the Spanish king ordered Fray Francisco de Villacorta to give lands to the Guaiqueri Indians, natives to this island on November 13^th, 1534. The priest of Cubagua was declared Protector and moved on to found a village in Valle de los Ochenta, which was not allowed to him by the natives. So he choose to found the Village at Sea, which he named Villa del Espiritu Santo (Village of the Holy Ghost).

November 3^rd, 1536, by royal degree signed by the Spanish queen, Villacorta is allowed to found a "Village by the Sea, which Francisco de Villacorta, Protector of the Indians over there, has named Villa del Espiritu Santo and has built a church there..." With the arrival of Pirates, like Lope de Aguirre in 1561, the citizens fled to the mountains. Later, they were gathered by Captain Pedro González Cervantes Albornóz and transferred to Valle de Santa Lucia, nowadays La Asunción: But this translation did not dissolve the village, but divided it in two parts: the Village by the Sea, at the Shore and the so called Pueblo Viejo (Old Village), today Valle del Espiritu Santo. Porlamar has not had a Weapon of Arms until recent times, when one was proclaimed by the City Council. The only Weapon of Arms given by the Spanish Crown in Margarita and Cubagua are the ones of Nueva Cádiz (Cubagua) and La Asunción (Margarita).

The Symbol of Porlamar is the Faro de la Puntilla, installed January 1^st, 1896 by Club Progreso. There is also the monument of the Sirena, a replica of the on in the tulleries of Paris, donated to Porlamar by the Rosenthal brothers. It has been inaugurated January 1^st, 1905. It is located on the highway from Porlamar to Punta de Piedras.

Actually, Porlamar is considered the commercial capital of Nueva Esparta State (Margarita, Coche and Cubagua). On the island are international ports where most of the goods for the duty free shops in Porlamar and other towns of Margarita arrive. Visitors from all over the word arrive on the international airport del caribe Santiago Mariño, just a few miles from Porlamar. Paved streets lead from this city to the most interesting historical sites and the warm, painteresque beaches around the Island

Porlamar has been hometown of heroes who fought against Spanish Domination during the Independence War; of writers and poets as Pedro Rivero, born January 3, 1893, Pedro Navarro González, born April 20^th, 1882, noteworthy reporters and in this raising town have been published numbers of newspapers, being the most important ones "El Sol de Margarita", "El Caribe" "El Caribazo"

April 5^th, 1975, Margarita was declared Duty Free Port by the Venezuelan Government, which lead to an important development of tourist infrastructures, concentrated mostly in Porlamar: huge hotels, luxurious restaurants, bingo's, casinos, clubs and entertainment centers.

President General Isaías Medina Angarita inaugurated the Statue of Simon Bolívar, in front of the church of San Nicolás de Bari. In 1891 Margarita was divided into districts. 

Counts on colonial and historic landmarks, beautiful beaches, international and typical restaurants and important hotels, Pampatar is one of the oldest towns on Margarita Island. From its beginnings in 1530, it has been a fisherman's town. When the first Spaniards decided to establish here, the built Forts and Fortresses to guard themselves against the pirate attacks

Its original name was Puerto Real de Mampatare (Royal Port of Mampatare). Nowadays, the Maneiro district, Capital Pampatar, is transforming itself into a mayor pole to national and international tourism, counting on attractions to allow the visitors to enjoy its hotels, services, entertainment and the friendly locals.

The local and regional authorities as well as the private undertakers are conceit of those characteristics and make it possible, through coordinate investments, for families from the country and from abroad to stay here. The most visited places are the Castle de San Carlos de Borromeo, a colonial building, built in 1864 and several times reconstructed. It displays very old pieces of artillery, swords, iron balls, paintings and armors from the Independence War. Crossing the Main street, you will find another colonial building full of memories, the church of Christ del Buen Viaje (Christ of Good Traveling) or church Del Viejo (of the old one), like local fishermen call their patron

The variety of hotels, restaurants, tourist complexes and resorts attract more and more visitors day by day. Beaches, entertainment centers and all-inclusive accommodations convert Pampatar in a most pleasant place to be and the visitor often is included in local life.

A few steps away is the restored site of the Antigua Aduana (Antique Duty) and the Casa Amarilla (the yellow house), boarded by the playa Los Cocos (Coconut Beach), a wide semicircle of still waters and local food sales in typical huts below coconut palms.

Other attractions as the Fortin de la Caranta with its iron canon the Cueva del Bufón, a waterfront cave full of ancient legends, friendly local fishermen, beautiful youngsters and laborious women tending to the food sales at the beaches, offering delicious local seafood.

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