📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The General Directorate of Youth, Participation and Volunteering (www.xuventude.xunta.es) is a department of the Xunta de Galicia (www.xunta.gal) whose priority is to meet the needs and concerns of the young population living in Galicia, firmly believing that youth has much to contribute to society as a whole. We work to improve the quality of life of young people in our autonomous community, developing actions and programs that benefit them, increase their well-being and allow them to improve their skill.
💼 What the programme involves
The main theme of the field of work is heritage and archeology. The work to be carried out will be excavation, clearing, evacuation of roots and firewood, sanitation. More will also be involved in a local community from the active participation in the Pilgrimage of San Lourenzo that takes place in the castro on August 10. The participants will get involved with a small rural community to help enhance their castro, as well as in the organization of the Pilgrimage of San Lourenzo that takes place at the site itself. The works will consist of the excavation and maintenance of a fort with Roman and medieval occupation in which archaeological projects have been carried out for several years. The tasks will be to excavate archaeologically some of the areas of the fort, always supervised by an archaeological team and other support tasks such as cleaning the access roads and surroundings of the excavations or removal of plant remains.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation will be in the municipal pavilion suitable for this purpose. Address: Av. de Outeiro, 37. 27331 A Pobra de BrollEn - Lugo
📍 About the location
Castrexa pottery and archeology workshops with a visit to the archeology laboratory located in the social premises of the Cereixa Residents Association. Through the lands of MarEa CastaE a: guided tour of the parish of Cereixa. Visit to the pazos of Tor, MuEE os de Anteros and the historic center of Monforte de Lemos: guided tour of the medieval town. We will cover the 15 kilometers of the stretch of the Camino de Santiago that passes through A Pobra do BrollEn, from Barxa de Lor to the Sierra de Cereixa. Through the GuimarEpoundes lands: excursion through the Terra Brava by Enxel Fole, visiting the villages of Parada de Montes, Salcedo and Cova das Choias (OE tara). Conference-colloquium on the scientific results of the project of the castro of San Lourenzo and exhibition of the documentary As pedras de San Lourenzo, with subsequent colloquium in the social premises of Cereixa.
ℹ️ Additional information
The incorporation to the work camp is in the afternoon of the first day and the departure the last day after breakfast.