📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
the local group “Morrieri” was born at the end of 90’ to safeguard a precious and delicate territory at the eastern Italian part: Capo d’Otranto. Legambiente local group saved the area of Cervi cave preventing the building of a tourism big structure; it promoted the craetion of the Park Otranto Leuca and conserved the Turchi bay.
Work: Volunteers will arrange part of the building as didactic room, they will create small gadgets, do the maintenance of the wooden fence and make signals for the official trekking paths
💼 What the programme involves
Legambiente has recovered Palascìa lighthouse through a legal dispute, because it had been assigned for a private villa. Thanks to the positive result of the dispute, the lighthouse was given back for community purposes. The first project in the regained lighthouse was a museum run by the university. After some more years of abandonment, the lighthouse has been restored with public funds and assigned to Legambiente, with the aim of creating a Centre for Environmental Education. From now on, the Centre must be set up: the project foresees restoration facilities with health food laboratories, the arrangement of didactic rooms with scientific equipment, the maintenance of paths and signals.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will live in the lighthouse.
📍 About the location
Capo d’Otranto is immersed in a valuable natural environment with different marine and land protected areas, a dune ecosystem and Mediterranean vegetation. The lighthouse was built in 1869 to identify the eastern part of Italy; it is among the five lighthouses under protection of the European Union and also hosts the meteorological station Otranto-Punta Palascia
⚠️ Requirements
Predisposition to walk and hiking; manual ability.
ℹ️ Additional information
Study part: responsible tourism and experimental archaeology