📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our group was founded in 2005 with the purpose of raising the awareness of local community and foreign volunteers about the value of the natural, archaeological, artistic and cultural local heritage and spread sustainable and responsible lifestyles. We still work a lot with the local community, mostly with children and youngsters, at school and on the streets. In our previous workcamps we have been promoting the discovery of the lost old medieval city, of the paleochristian minor necropolis of Lardia, cleaned up or opened brand new paths through the Necropolis of Pantalica and in the Anapo Valley and the group gave a new life to the restored and abandoned beautiful hermitage of Santa Sofia a Rassu, our base camp for summer activities.
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: The target of our workcamp is double: to enhance the local park dedicated to pets we created last year and to promote the archaeological and nature areas of Pantalica, Anapo Valley and the Medieval Sortino working at the path system and welcoming tourists.
Specifically:
-Volunteers together with locals will clean up the pets' park and furnish it with benches;
-will cut grass, branches and bushes to open up a new path in the nature reserve guided by a worker of the Forest Department;
-welcoming tourists, volunteers will fit a gazebo at the entrances of the Nature Reserve of Pantalica and Anapo Valley to welcome the users with some fresh orange juice (gently offered by local farmers) and make them aware about the site they are going to visit and about the Legambiente organization and its activities.
STUDY PART: As training activities, volunteers will attend a health and safety training course on the correct use of the tools, safety and accident prevention and a workshop on local handicraft held by an expert artisan and aimed at the realization of a traditional object (soaps, wooden baskets, stools, etc).
A guided visit to the town with its surroundings and the nature reserve is included.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Building hosting volunteers is an old hermitage out of the city centre and self-managed. There is no internet and the water supply is limited. The diet will be vegetarian arranged with local products.
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: The camp is held in one of the most important prehistorical sites of Sicily: the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pantalica, in the Nature Reserve of river Anapo Valley. It is located in the area of Sortino, a small town on the Hyblean Mounts, near Syracuse, Noto and the whole baroque part of South-Eastern Sicily. The planned excursions will take into consideration the treasures of our area: nature reserves, archaeological sites, and of course our wonderful beaches.
TERMINAL: -Catania Airport (CTA).
-Train stations in Syracuse and in Catania.
-Last bus from Catania at 19:00 (stops at the airport);
-Last bus from Siracusa at 20:00
⚠️ Requirements
No specific skills are required. Just keep in mind you will spend most of your time outdoor, immersed in the wild nature, so pay attention to insect bites or stings, especially if you are an allergy sufferer.