📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The General Directorate for Cultual Heritage is an institution in the Community of Madrid that is responsable, among others, for historic preservation and heritage as well as promoting and fostering public Access to cultural heritage assets.
💼 What the programme involves
Tasks for conservation and improvement of the Roman Road rurroundings:
Clearing the vegetation of the existing path which runs paralelle to the Roman Road, and help keeping it in use as well as integrate in the landscape.
Road surface consolidation and cleaning of water passages.
Removal of sand from small run-offs.
INTERNAL ORGANIZATION
Participants will work 5 days a week. The actual work of the workcamp will be carried out in the morning. In the afternoon, leisure and recreation activities will be held. There will be two days off (on weekends) per week.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Las Dehesas Youth Hostel
Carretera de las Dehesas s/n Cercedilla
Phone: +34918520135
It has rooms of 4 and 8 plzas, work rooms, spaces for common use and meals. Because of its facilities, they offer an ideal framework for the realization of educational, sports, environmental and leisure activities.
📍 About the location
Workshops and group leisure activities will be held. In addition, we will visit Segovia.
⚠️ Requirements
Young people and students in general and preferably students of archeology, history of art, restoration and architecture.
The workcamp targets young people between 18 and 30 who are interested in the Archaeology.
ℹ️ Additional information
THINGS TO BRING
Clothes to work: Sturdy boots, gloves, long-sleeve T-shirts, long pants to prevent mosquito bites, a cap, sunscreen.
Outerwear and rainwear, swimsuit, mosquito repellent, a torch, towel and cleaning supplies.
No need to bring a sleeping bag. There are bed sheets at the hostel.
TRAVELLING INSTRUCTIONS
From Madrid to Cercedilla:
By bus at the Moncloa transport exchanger.
By train: commuter line C8 from Atocha to Cercedilla or line from Madrid to Segovia.
From Cercedilla train station, go up Emilio Serrano street to the crossroads, and then take Las Dehesas road. The hostel is around 40 minutes walking from there.
MEETING POINT:
30 -July from 6:00 h.pm at Las Dehesas hostel