📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Commit to save a 2,000 years old heritage and discover the history of Camblanes, a submerged village in the Bordeaux countryside!
As a former Roman village, the city of Camblanes now wants to highlight the remains of that past. Abandoned for over 20 years, diggings around a Gallo-Roman villa requires the intervention of motivated volunteers to protect them from attrition and to help maintaining the area. Throughout your experience, you will participate to local celebrations and visit the surrounding area.
💼 What the programme involves
You will participate to the cleaning of the site and protection of the Gallo-Roman villa of Camblanes. This year's work will focus on clearing the area, cleaning walls and partially cover the buildings to protect what remains from corrosion.
You will also prepare the site to accommodate a Gallo-Roman educational garden accessible to local youth.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Camping. Tents for 2, with boys and girls separated, will be provided . Please bring your mat and sleeping bag. A collective tent for cooking and other group activities will also be provided to the group. The group will share collective tasks, manage the budget along with the camp leaders, shop and prepare meals made of local healthy products as a team.
📍 About the location
Camblanes is a village populated by 3,000 inhabitants and located about twenty kilometers from Bordeaux. Surrounded by vineyards, it offers many attractions such as hikes along the Garonne, visits of Bordeaux city or an excursion on the Atlantic Ocean side.
⚠️ Requirements
Meeting point:
Bordeaux main train station
Closest airport:
Bordeaux
ℹ️ Additional information
Bring clothes, gloves and work shoes, a raincoat, hiking shoes, a flashlight and a swimsuit. The nights can be cool; so take warm clothes and a good sleeping bag. You can also take recipes from your country, musical instruments and games. .
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 it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.