📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Participate in the valorisation of a historic site at the heart of idyllic mountain landscapes ! Join us and come discover l’Abbaye de Clausonne and its natural environment at 1140 meters of altitude!
It is in the XII century that the Abbaye sees the day. After multiple periods of deconstruction and of reconstruction over the centuries, in the 20th century, it became an agricultural building, which was abandoned in the 1950s. It is in 1994 that the association of friends of Abbaye of Clausonne was created to conserve the vestiges of this exceptional architecture, on an exceptional site. Since then, the association wanted to make this place a place of discovery, learning and knowledge.
💼 What the programme involves
Do you want to learn ancient techniques of masonry, the use of ancient material and ecology? This year, we will work to continue the masonry in stone, on the ancient sheep herding, in order to make it, in a few years, a room for cooking, storing tools, etc. We will continue as well to work on putting value in the site and hiking trails. And if the time allows, we will participate in the construction of stone stairs in the sheepfold with the help of masons that wil there to transmit their knowledge! The work represents 30h in a week. The nights and weekends are free for activities that we will choose to organise together.
🏠 Accommodation on site
We will be accommodated in tents on the Clausonne site in order to take full advantage of the magical natural environment offered by the site in summer. On the logistics side, a kitchen and dining room tent will be set up for shelter in the event of rain. On the sanitary side, the site has very functional dry toilets and on the shower side, we will have to rely on the pretty river Maraize which flows below. We will also be able to meet the volunteers and residents of our reception center, the Ferme du Faï, located a 20-minute walk away. There is no WIFI on site and the phone has difficulty picking up, you have to move a few meters away!
We will cook in a rotation of roles, so that we can taste several specialties! Here, we pay attention to what we eat, to reduce our impact on the planet we try to eat a maximum of local products and we eat meat two times a week.
📍 About the location
We will be in an exceptional setting to discover the pleasures of mountain hiking, its rivers, its lakes, the farmers and producers markets, the festive nights organised in surrounding villages. In group, we will decide activities and discovery outings that we wish to set up. The reception center usually organizes one musical evening per week with homemade wood-fired pizzas.