📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The St-Petersburg has a fascinating collection of World Heritage Monuments which reflect the incredible depth and diversity of Russian culture (link http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/540 Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments)
World Heritage site of Saint-Petersburg consists not only of well-known places (the historic centre of Saint Petersburg and its famous environs Petergof, Tsarskoe Selo, Pavlovsk), but iconic and lesser known Groups of Monuments (park and estate ensembles, fortress and other). These monuments will enable people to see Russia from a new and exciting perspective.
WH project will be relocating. Volunteers will travel and work in the suburbs Pavlovsk, Tsarskoe Selo and other.
It is a unique workcamp for volunteers, who want to get in touch with the spirit of Russian history.
VIDEO about MIR TESEN camps
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/657bkls2222c6x9/AABc8FBpxcjoVmb1Q9mlIs92a'dl=0
💼 What the programme involves
Under supervision of local experts the volunteers will be engaged in improving the park: take care of plantation of trees, mow the meadows, clean the hollows, sweep the grounds, cleaning them out of the garbage, improve the paths around the Palace. Volunteers will work in the park of state museums reserves in the Pavlovsk park, Pushkin in those parts of the park that tourists rarely visit.
Volunteers will visit the village of Gostilitsy, where the gothic ruined palace is located in the Imperial Estate, also volunteers will work in the "Mikhailovskaya Datcha" facility in New Peterhof.
Volunteers will be able to create a World Heritage Tourism Route around Saint-Petersburg. The Route map will include little-known but historically and culturally rich components of the WH site .
🏠 Accommodation on site
Host organization provides a basic condition accommodation and food in St-Petersburg in the special rooms for volunteers for 10 persons in down toun St-Petersburg (Vasil’evskiy Ostrov) . The shower with hot water, equipped kitchen and the common room are provided. Volunteers will cook by themselves.
📍 About the location
: St. Petersburg city TERMINAL: Pulkovo International Airport is located about 17 km from the St. Petersburg center.