📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The medieval city of Saint Floret offers an unusual and pleasant living environment. The castle town is overlooked by the ruins of the castle and the site of the chapel, two Historical Monuments. It has a rich heritage and has benefited from a development and valorization program for about ten years. For the third time, the municipality wishes to supplement this program by hosting a youth volunteer project.
💼 What the programme involves
Work will focus on the enhancement of the castle town and especially on the repairing of the staircase and walls, the cleaning of the site and the completing of the stone track that is used to visit the ruins. The work will be physical but interesting and rich of experience. You will be guided by local technicians and volunteers who will be happy to share the history of these places with you. You will work 4 to 5 hours a day.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in the heart of the ruins site in the festive hall. You will have a shower, toilet and a kitchen. You will sleep in the room on mattresses on the floor. No shop in the village (the nearest is at 3 km).
📍 About the location
Saint-Floret is a lively tourist town in summer, located in the Couze Pavin valley, at the foot of the Sancy mountain range. The village offers a preserved environment and amazing landscapes. Activities will be proposed during your stay in partnership with local associations: a guided tour of the local heritage, excursions, hiking trips-
⚠️ Requirements
This workcamp is the opportunity to work in an unusual place with a significant heritage. Stone lovers, don t miss itThe different works will allow you to acquire skills in masonry and landscaping: restoration of a stone wall using limestone mortar, paving of a long-step staircase, setting up of a stone track... As you will work with campleaders and other volunteers, you will develop your adaptability and versatility, rigor and tenacity. Those are skills you will also strengthen through group life.
ℹ️ Additional information
Site medieval atypique, commune rurale et isolee
