1. B A R C E L O N A
N O V E M B E R
2 0 1 3
the
Gothic gymkhana
COMENIUS IN BARCELONA EDITION
Introduction
This is a cultural Gymkhana
through thematic tests in the
historical center of Barcelona.
Instructions
You will have to accomplish some task in groups, in
which there will be representatives of at least three
countries.
We want you to work in teams therefore you will take
the roles and so you will make agreements (assign the
one who acts of spokesman, who is going to be the
leader…), but there is no need to say that the roles can
also be changeable.
Starting point: In the center of Plaza Catalunya
Team identification
1.
Every team
should develop a
colored team icon
using
a
cardboard,
one
scissors
and
a
piece of string in
5 minutes time.
2.
All the team
members will be
wearing the same
icon. So you must
create your team
icon and do that
before departure
time.
3.
Therefore you
need to coordinate
(divide the string
proportionally
distribute
the
task…)
We will record the starting and arrival times,
so that we know how much time did every
team needed to reach the end.
Every team will have to
provide us all the 18 the
proofs in the end of the
gymkhana, so that we can
assess them.
It is not just only important
how fast you do the test and
to be the first arriving to the
finish line, is even more
important to do the tests as
good as possible (as long as
we will score every test from
0 to 2)
The aim of the gymkhana is
to know the heart of the city
and some of historical traces.
We Intend that you pupils will
ve able to know some of the
most emblematic places of the
Gothic Barcelona through time
(from Rome up to the current
time).

2. GOTHIC GYMKHANA
COMENIUS 2013
Gymkhana description for students
1. In order to get out you have to be
wearing all of you the team icon build
up with the three materials we
provided you (a pen, cardboard and a
string.)
2. This is a team game and the clock, which will
have to pass a series of tests and follow a
particular route to reach each target group
3. It is essentials that you carry out the tests
marked and keep on the path described by the
marked order or else the team will be
disqualified.
4. The tests are valued at the end, when you
reach the goal.
5. The gymkhana will approximately take about 3
hours time and there will be three hidden
controls between the start and the end points:
Plaza Catalunya, Plaza Real and Fossar of them
Moreres
Recommendations:
Remember to wear comfortable
clothes, closed footwear,
sunglasses and a hat if the day
And your team is…
Your help teacher
contact information is…

3. GOTHIC GYMKHANA
COMENIUS 2013
Fusce quis lacus
Gothic gymkhana waybill
Time
aprox.
Place
Test
Score
Do the icon or the teams distinctive using
the provided materials. Take a picture of
all the team. Proof 1
Proof 1
10:15
Center of
Plaza
Catalunya
(Starting
point)
Ramblas
Proof 2
10:30
La Boquería
Take a picture of you drinking from
Canaletes fountain (where Barça team
celebrates its victories) Proof 2
Look for an unknown product and take a
picture with it showing the name of it
(behind the counter if it is possible)
Proof 3
Write in one sheet the information provided
by the seller (name, origin, type of product:
animal, vegetable…) Proof 4
Take a picture with a foreign family with
at least four members. All the team must
be in the picture. Proof 5
Write their names, nationality and ages.
Proof 6
Record yourself doing a performance
(singing, dancing, playing the statue…) doing
something that make you earn money.
Proof 7
Take also a picture of someone giving
money to you. Proof 8
Enter to Plaza Real through a passage
called “Passatge Bacardi”. You have to take
a picture of you in this passage. Proof 9
Find out which the oldest streetlamps of
Plaza Real are, and also who its designer
was. Take a picture or video explaining it.
Proof 10
Find out where is the ORIGINAL council (city
house) facade and take a picture of all you
there.
Proof 11
10:00
10:45
11:00
Ramblas
Liceo
11:30
Plaza Real
11:45
Plaza Real
12:00
Plaza Sant
Jaume
Proof 3
Proof 4
Proof 5
Proof 6
Proof 7
Proof 8
Proof 9
Proof 10
Proof 11

4. GOTHIC GYMKHANA
Time
aprox.
12:15
12:30
COMENIUS 2013
Place
Test
Score
Going to
Cathedral of
Barcelona
Paradís
street 10-12
Cathedral
Discover where is the “Centre excursionista
de Catalunya” (hiking Catalonia´s club)
entrance and take a picture of you showing
the name of the roman monument hidden
inside it. Proof 12
Go to the main entrance to the Cathedral
of Barcelona and take a picture of the
Group showing its building date and its
architectonic style Proof 13
Take a picture of all you in a place where
you can read the Latin name of Barcelona
and you also get a piece of the roman
aqueduct Proof 14
Proof 12
Proof 13
Proof 14
12:45
Plaça del Rei Ask who lived in the Royal Palace and take Proof 15
a picture of you with the palace behind you
and a sheet saying the answer. Proof 15
13:00
Museo
Picasso
Take a picture of all of you on the museum
Picasso steps holding a sheet saying the
name of the noble house and its
construction dates. Proof 16
Proof 16
13:15
Santa María
del Mar
Seek the Barça weapon among all the
church stained glasses and take a picture
of it. Proof 17
Proof 17
13:30
Fossar de les
Moreres
Explain with a picture what happened in
this place, and why there is a memorial in
El Fossar de les Moreres. Proof 18
Proof 18