📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
From Luz-Saint-Sauveur, the Pyrenees Mountains are all yours. All the nicest sites of the region are easily reachable. You will find there the pleasure to inhale, to move, to transcend yourself and to enjoy!
The great writer Victor HUGO was describing Luz as a “Charming old city deliciously standing in a deep triangular valley. When the “miquelets” (Catalan militia men) and the Spanish smugglers arrived from Aragon through Roland’s Breach, they saw a great clarity. They found out this large borough, sunlit and alive. They named this village: Light, Luz.”
For a few years, the municipality has been starting up a big rehabilitation project of its local heritage and works on the “Heritage on the go” tourist project. In the frame of that project, the municipality rehabilitates one by one each of the 6 washhouses in the village. The aim of this large project is to propose to the visitors a tourist path named “From a wash-house to another”.
This year we propose you to continue the work started 2 years ago and carry on the renovation of one of these washhouses.
💼 What the programme involves
The restoration of the washhouses started last year, this year you will restore the second one situated in the heart of the village. The aim of the workcamp is to put it back to its original shape. You will participate in demolition works and renovate the coatings with traditional construction techniques.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in a building in the center of village. You will have access to showers and toilets. The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together.
📍 About the location
Luz Saint Sauveur is in the Hautes-Pyrénées County, south-west of France near the pilgrimage city of Lourdes. It is close to the most beautiful natural marvels of the Pyrenees Mountains: the Midi Peak, the Gavarnie circus, the Bridge of Spain, the Néouvielle natural park, the Pyrenees national park with its numerous lakes.... A territory which, by its beauty and its diversity, presents a real historical, architectural and environmental interest.
ℹ️ Additional information
Bring working clothes, gloves and shoes. Bring a warm sleeping bag, nights might be cold at altitude. To enjoy the mountain, bring your trekking shoes. For the brave who want to refresh themselves in the rivers, take your swim-suit. Do not hesitate to bring specialties from home, photos, games, music instruments....
Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and be reimbursed once back home.