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CUEVAS DE FUENTES DE LEÓN

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About the project

CUEVAS DE FUENTES DE LEÓN

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

SVI (International Volunteering Service), is part of the Spanish Institute for Youth (Instituto de la Juventud-Injuve), a Public Institution dependent on the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, whose main purpose is to promote international volunteering projects and activities among youth people. The SVI coordinates the international work camps organized by the Autonomous Communities and Autonomous Cities in Spain, and is responsible for managing the exchange of available places between the Work Camps in Spain and the International Organizations.

💼 What the programme involves

Natural Monument Cuevas de Fuentes de Leon is a protected natural area whose main reference is the set of cavities in addition to their geological value, with a wide variety of speleothems (so rare in our community) and biological, they retain a rich and large colony of bats, have an important archaeological site in its interior, with occupations identified in various stages of prehistory. Archaeological field works and laboratory survey.

🏠 Accommodation on site

As Accommodation we have available a shelter of interpretive center on the nature of Fuentes de Leon, a wide place inside the town.The breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served in a restaurant whose recipes its based in a typicall Spanish gastronomy.

📍 About the location

Workshop of multiple disciplines linked to prehistory and Medieval archaeology, such: zooarchaeology, paleobotanic, experimental archaeology, etc. We will make an excursion to other and nearest archaeological sites.

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📅 Available sessions

SVIEX02-17

10/07/2017 → 24/07/2017

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 7
♂ 0/3 ♀ 0/4

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Av. las Comunidades, 9, 06800 Mérida, Badajoz, Spain

Spain

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 21:33 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Spanish