📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Legambiente Ilaria Alpi promotes initiatives against the soil consumption and for the conservation of natural resources. We cooperate with other local association organizing cultural events in order to raise awarness about environment.
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: The work consists in taking care, cleaning and restore signage Mount Orfano's trails. Removing garbage will be the main activity, Legambiente will provide all the stuff you need, we will provide also transport and information.
STUDY PART: Volunteers will partecipate in the organization of exchanging workshop.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in Villa Gnecchi an historical building of 16 century totally restored in city center with huge park. Self-managed kitchen. No internet All facilities are close to the house
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: Cologne is a village of 7000 inhabitants in the middle of Franciacorta district, 25 km from Brescia. Mount Orfano is the green lung of the area about 4,8 square km and reach 450 mt heigh. Franciacorta is famous all over the world for his wine, his landscapes and historical buolding like Convento dell'Annunciata, a historical buolding on the top of Mount Orfano.
TERMINAL: From Bergamo Airport you go to the Bergamo train Station, then you take the train to Brescia and you stop in Cologne. It takes 35 min and it costs 3,30 euros. Last train leaves at 21,14
From Verona Airport you go to the Verona Trai Station, you take the train to Brescia. In Brescia you have to get off and change, you will have to take a train to Bergamo and stop in Cologne. It costs 3,60 euros, last train is at 21,00
From Milan airports (Malpensa or Linate) you go to Milan Train station, then you take the train to Verona Porta Nuova and you stop at Rovato. From Rovato you take the train to Bergamo and you stop in Cologne. It costs 7.40 euros, last train at 21:13
⚠️ Requirements
We suggest to bring comfortable shoes. Volunteers have to be interested in ecology!