📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Join us in the heart of the provençale Baronnies in a stunning setting surrounded by mountains ! Rosans is a charming site to appreciate the cobble stoned streets of a village nestled within the lush mountainside between Alpes and Provence ! Take in nature at its most rich and breath deeply, here the air is as pure as the sky !
The workcamp concerns an old path linking the village to the lake of Rosans. This path is flanked by dry-stone walls and is connected to an old pathway that today is abandonned in favor of the route situated below. This pathway offers magnificent views over the landscape of Rosanais that varies with the season. The regional natural park of the provençale Baronnies, in parternship with the assocation Les Villages des Jeunes and the Pôle Randonnée de la Communauté de Communes du Sisteronais Buëch, launched an operation to raise awareness about, and highlight the technique of dry stone mansonry. Elected officials and residents will be engaged in this operation by helping restauration efforts and promoting the discovery of dry stone built heritage (conferences, visists). The international workcamp is in line with these efforts, and will revolve around the continution of work that has already been done in 2019.
💼 What the programme involves
Last year, this site welcomed many workcamps : a 2 week international workcamp where participants discovered dry-stone masonry technique by creating a stone floor (called a calade) to the right of a water supply on the path, and two workcamps open to the residents to participate in the restauration of the path’s supporting walls that had many gaps. This year, you will participate in the continuation of this work. The creation of the dry-stone floor will be followed up to ensure that the whole project is cohesive with landscape. The workcamp will be supervised by a professional in the field of dry-stone mansonry. A day's work is expected to last 6 hours, and the organisation of the days will be discussed and decided on by the group of participants. The pedagogical objective of this worksite is to discover a traditional construction technique whose only required materials are stones cleared from fields intended for agriculture, or those recovered from former buildings. Theoretical, historical, and practical approaches will be shared with participants.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be housed under tents on municipal campground two steps away from the workcamp place. A facilitating team will be present to accompany the participants in the organisation of collective life during the two weeks of the camp : planning housekeeping tasks, developing menus and preparing meals alternately, organizing recreational activities and outings. The purchase of local products will be prioritized, and everyone will come with their own ideas, talents, and tips and tricks to help prepare the meals.
📍 About the location
Location : Rosans is a village in the south of France, nestled between the Alps and the Haute Provence (23 km to the west of Serres, 40km to the east of Nyons). The village is home to various shops, and festivities are usually organised during the summer period.
Leisure activities : The land of sunshine and amazing flavors, the provençale Baronnies massif is good living personified where you can enjoy outdoor activities in the heart of nature while also just lounging around ! Not far from Rosans, you will be able to explore numerous sites : the Saint André de Rosans priory, Saint-Genis mountain, Clavelière mountain, the village of Rosans, the geological curiosity « dinosaur eggs » etc. The Saint May canyons, located closeby, house an important colony of vultures (wild vultures, black vultures, bearded vultures, egyptian vultures) that one can observe easily while hiking a trail that offers spectacular panoramic views of the canyon and the massifs of Baronnies. To refresh yourselves, the lake of Rosans is only a ten minute walk away from the village and is a great escape for those looking to relax.