🏢 About the local organisation
The Ecomuseum of Terrazzamenti and Grape vine in Cortemilia (CN) is part of the Ecomuseum system of Piemonte Region.
The main aim of the Ecomuseum in Piemonte region is the preservation and valorisation of historical memories, material culture expression and the way in which human activities and traditional settlements has characterized the formation and the evolution of the environment in Piemonte.
In the last years, workcamps were dedicated to Monteoliveto construction site, symbol of Ecomuseum. There it were built terraces with dry stone walls, useful to restore of traditional agricultural cultivation and terrazzato landscape.
The 2014 workcamps had the main aim to rebuild some walls of the terraces in the Cascina Monteoliveto and rebuild of the dry wall of the old road in front the municipality. In collaboration with the local school cookers staff, during the bad weather, they preparated some typical food as pizza crush in the firewood oven and jams.
💼 What the programme involves
maintenance work of walls in dry stone of the old farmhouse of Monteoliveto, on the sternies along the ancient Municipal roads (to the smal Village Doglio, to the small Village Castella), restoration of the clattered in stone of Langa of the historical center of Cortemilia.
Possible collaboration for the picking of grapes and typical mais of Monteoliveto grounds.
Work in dry stone will be organized and followed by one of the most elderly and experts teachers of dry stone wall construction.