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Restoring the heritage of Murat

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About the project

Restoring the heritage of Murat

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

In the heart of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region volcanoes' chain, classified UNESCO World Heritage, volunteers have been working, for 15 years now, every summer, to restore and maintain Murat's territory heritage (Pays de Murat), using traditional and ancestral techniques.

💼 What the programme involves

You will participate to save and enhance built and natural heritage (dry stone walls) on this territory, all around the Saint-Antoine Chapel, classified as a Historical Monument.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation is in tents (2 people per tent) in a local camping. There is a bigger tent hosting the kitchen and dining tables. Volunteers will manage the tasks of daily life in teams (shopping, cooking, cleaning), toilets and showers are in a recent building on the camping site.

📍 About the location

Pays de Murat is a community of cities located in the Cantal, a wonderfull french departement in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is a beautiful region of medium mountains (around 1000m high), with wonderful views on the volcanoes and mounts of Auvergne. The small rural villages are full of houses with typical stone roofs and wooden/stone walls. the villages have a very rich built heritage (bread ovens, chapels, castles). This region is the perfect place to go for a hike in the mountains, by foot, by bike, for practicing canoe, swimming in the lakes, according to what the leading team and the weather can propose. The leaders will prepare games and entertainment, but you will be invited to propose and organise your own activites according to your ideas and wishes, so bring your creativity!

⚠️ Requirements

EXTRA FEES: reduced to 250€ for international volunteers. Pay attention! Our national participants in France pay the regular 360€ of extra fees. International volunteers coming from our partners in other countries than France pay only 250€ of extra fees. Nights can be cold, do not forget to bring a warm sleeping bag. Bring games, musique, recipes or typical ingredients from your region or country to share with the rest of the group ! The site is unfortunately not accessible for wheelchairs. There is a wifi access at the entrance of the camping. Please note that the telephone network is quite low.

ℹ️ Additional information

EXTRA FEES: reduced to 250€ for international volunteers. Pay attention! Our national participants in France pay the regular 360€ of extra fees. International volunteers coming from our partners in other countries than France pay only 250€ of extra fees. Nights can be cold, do not forget to bring a warm sleeping bag. Bring games, musique, recipes or typical ingredients from your region or country to share with the rest of the group ! The site is unfortunately not accessible for wheelchairs. There is a wifi access at the entrance of the camping. Please note that the telephone network is quite low.

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📅 Available sessions

ANEC08

11/07/2019 → 26/07/2019

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 22
♂ 0/11 ♀ 0/11

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

14–17 years old

Solidarity donation

360.00 EUR

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

📍 Location

4 Rue du Faubourg Notre Dame, 15300 Murat, France

France

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 21:48 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English French