📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Attached to the richness of its heritage, the municipality of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie wishes for this first workcamp to involve a team of volunteers in its valorization. This summer s project will focus on the rearranging of the footpath leading to the Grotte de la Madeleine (Magdalene cave). Part of the town s religious heritage, the Grotte de la Madeleine has an old chapel that was once used as a place of worship and still today contains an altar and two statues representing Mary Magdalene and a wolf.
💼 What the programme involves
The hiking trail that leads to it begins in the heart of the village and winds through the old-fashioned restanques , allowing many visitors to enjoy this rural heritage that is so characteristic of the Provence landscape. With time, water and the unraveling of some restanques, the trail became more difficult to access. The various steps and levels have eroded due to transit and rain. You will also have the mission to clear, to devegetalize the trail, to redefine the route, to repair steps and to secure the site. To do this, you will be supervised by a wall craftsman, specialized in calades , and you will work 4 to 5 hours a day.
🏠 Accommodation on site
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📍 About the location
Located in the heart of the Alpes de Hautes Provence department (04) and the Verdon Regional Natural Park, the town of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie has a rich natural and built heritage. You can visit the streets of this village full of history and typical of Provence. You can also go up to the Chapel of Notre Dame de Beauvoir, labeled as a historical monument, which offers an exceptional view of the village and the Verdon valley. You will meet the pottery craftsmen and visit the museum in the town. You can also visit the office of the Verdon Regional Natural Park where you can learn more about this preserved place. Finally, the locals, associations volunteers and municipal representatives will come to meet you and will be happy to share their terroir.
⚠️ Requirements
This site will allow you to acquire skills in landscaping and small masonry: repairing of steps, creation of counter-steps and step nosing, devegetalization, tracing and signalling of a trail. You will be trained in the traditional dry stone construction technique, typical of the rural and pastoral world. Working as a team, both with the camp leaders and with other volunteers, you will develop your listening, your adaptability and versatility, rigor and tenacity. Those are skills you will also strengthen through group life.