📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Bayonne is a historic city of confluence, heritage and trade, a city full of character and art of living... From the old Bayonne, which reveals the secrets of the Cathedral of Sainte-Marie, the cloister and the Gothic cellar to the ramparts...
It is down its fortifications that the Léo Lagrange Bayonne federation is set up. The Léo Lagrange Federation is a National Youth and Sports Education Association. It is very involved in the life of the town, which is why it has called on Concordia to participate in its new project: to renovate, in collaboration with the municipality, the old stone building that houses it.
More information: www.bayonne.fr
💼 What the programme involves
Get involved in a local project to help preserve this exceptional heritage of the town of Bayonne. You will have the chance to be part in the restoration of an old armory building, heritage designed as a Historical Monument. Thanks to masonry and stone-cutting techniques, you will consolidate the damaged and eroded parts; you will remove the existing plaster in order to recoat it with a lime mortar tinted with natural pigments to help preserve this exceptional heritage of the town of Bayonne. You will also help for resizing and replacing the blocks of stone which will require it. This work involved working on low scaffolding.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in individual tents in the very heart of the city walls. You will have at your disposal sanitary facilities, kitchen and living room in a part of the building where there is a park and a very pretty viewpoint of the old town of Bayonne. You will share the various collective tasks and prepare meals together. A budget will be allocated to the group leaders; you will take part in the grocery shopping and the preparation of the meals, opting for healthy and local products. There will be many the local entertainments during your stay. The Atlantic Ocean is situated at the end of the town.
📍 About the location
Bayonne is located 10 min from the Atlantic Ocean and Biarritz, 30 min from Spain and 40 min from the first foothills of the Pyrenees. It is close to the famous seaside resorts of the Basque Coast, the picturesque little Basque villages in the interior and the wild beaches of the Landes Coast. The Basque Country is also close to Spain: for example, San Sebastian and its old district.
ℹ️ Additional information
Bring a sleeping bag for cold weather, work clothes, sports shoes, warm and rain clothes, a torch lamp, a swimsuit and sunscreen.
Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for them, and will then be reimbursed once back in their home country.
