Monleras: Preservation of cultural and natural resources to fight depopulation

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Spain Environment Renovation Environment Heritage +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Monleras is a small village of 270 inhabitants. Like many other regions of the region of Castilla, are struggling against unstoppable depopulation and general decay of rural culture, plus aging of its population. The whole neighborhood is committed to search alternatives for their common future. Preservation of cultural and natural resources plays a very important role in all their planning, so there will be activities for the enhancement of natural, ethnographic and cultural resources associated with a way of life that has survived until recent years in this area. The presence of international volunteers brings life and joy to the everyday life of the people of the village.

💼 What the programme involves

There are several landscape, buildings, wells, and other traditional constructions that identify this area. Until few years ago, people have been living in harmony with the environment. These sites have great cultural significance and heritage, and could be the key of development in this region. Cleaning paths of vegetation, design and fitting of an interpretative route through a village or using new ways of construction in concordance with the oldest conceptions, are some of the work to be done in these villages by volunteers. There will also be activities to enhancement the ethnographic and cultural resources associated with a way of life that has survived until recent years in this area, which is in high risk of being lost.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will sleep in a civil center without beds, they should bring sleeping bags and mats. Food will be cooked by volunteers. Ingredients provided by the camp.

📍 About the location

Village of Monleras, located near Salamanca, in the North-West of Spain.

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📅 Available sessions

ES-MAD 12.1

19/08/2019 → 30/08/2019

Closed

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

25–99 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

37171 Monleras, Salamanca, Spain

Spain

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 22:20 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Spanish