📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Moirax is one of the most beautiful village in the Agen city region, for its amazing natural landscapes and its beautiful built heritage.
The village strives to preserve its natural and rural lands while promoting tourism, helped by the presence of a remarkable historical monument: the Cluny Priory. Major restoration work were undertaken in the 1950s to save the monument according to the original architecture. But the fragile walls are still crumbling. The project for this summer will be to consolidate and rebuild the outer walls of the site.
💼 What the programme involves
You will pursue the restoration of the outer walls started last year. You will reinforce the damaged parts using traditional masonry techniques and rebuild the destroyed parts to allow the preservation of the heritage and to perpetuate the history of the village. Please note that you will have to work on scaffoldings. For two years now, international volunteers have been working side by side with locals for the safeguard of the Priory. These people are working all along the year to that end and they wish to renew the experience with you this year!
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will have a basic roofed accommodation including a kitchen and a room for collective life, inside the former cloister with a beautiful view on the landscape. You will share the cleaning chores and prepare meals together. The budget will be allocated to the group leader and you will participate in the preparation of dishes using good products from the market and local producers.
📍 About the location
Looking over Agen city and the Garonne river valley, the village of Moirax is located south-east of the Lot-et-Garonne county, 9 Km from Agen city. It benefits from the proximity of the city and the countryside. Its territory spreads to the hills of Gascogne region, on the left bank of the Garonne River, which forms the northern communal frontier.
⚠️ Requirements
Bring a sleeping bag, working clothes, sports shoes, warm clothes and rain gear, a flashlight, a swimsuit and sunscreen.
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 then be reimbursed once back in their home country.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Agen train station
Closest airport:
Bordeaux or Toulouse