Rediscover Iași is a Paradis International College brand project that we have been running for 10 years, since 2014, through which we aim to promote our city and its surroundings in an unique way, with the students acting as mini-guides for tourists. As part of the project, guests are presented with two touristic and historical routes: the Road of Great Beginnings and the Road of Hidden Treasures, traditionally organized every year by 5th-grade students. We are delighted that any of our middle school or high school students can support this project in both Romanian and English, and some even in German. The project offers students the opportunity to develop their public speaking skills, the ability to analyze and synthesize information, a spirit of volunteerism, and an understanding of active democracy, becoming aware of the importance of knowing and promoting our city and developing their sense of belonging to a local community.
If you come to Iași, our students will be happy to give you a tour of the city, and you will discover the treasures of our town.
Tansa- a Land of Stories
Apart from the guided tours through Iasi, the students of Paradis International College invite you to get to know a fairytale land, near Iași, where another soul project of the Paradis community was developed: Tansa a Land of Stoies. This represents an important tribute that we pay to traditional Romanian values. The main objective of the project was the revitalization of the cultural and craft area in the Tansa region, a representative place for authentic Moldova from the interwar period. This was achieved by setting up a village museum in the old post office building, rehabilitating a 100-year-old house with traditional materials to preserve the architecture and interiors specific to the area, and bringing back to the collective social consciousness the most important village craft, the one that made the place famous – pottery. In the four editions of the Voluntary School from Tansa, our students had the opportunity to experience living stories about the local people and the objects collected in the museum, real history lessons of the Romanian village, and they understood that the language, the land, and the ancestral traditions are part of each of us.
