📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
In the heart of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region volcanoes' chain, currently on the tentative list for 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 build your own activites according to your ideas and wishes, so bring your creativity!
⚠️ Requirements
EXTRA FEES : reduced to 250€ for internationals. Pay attention ! Our national participants in France pay the regular 360€ extra fees. International volunteers coming from our partners in other countries than France pay only 250€ of extra fees. For technical reasons, this website announces only the regular extra fees for national participants. If you have any question, feel free to ask your sending organisation.
ℹ️ Additional information
EXTRA FEES : reduced to 250€ for internationals. Pay attention ! Our national participants in France pay the regular 360€ extra fees. International volunteers coming from our partners in other countries than France pay only 250€ of extra fees. For technical reasons, this website announces only the regular extra fees for national participants. If you have any question, feel free to ask your sending organisation.
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 ! For the working part , bring adapted clothes and security shoes. The rest of the equipment will be provided.
The site is not accessible for wheelchairs unfortunately.