📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Saint-Martin-Valmeroux is a village located in the French department of Cantal. Its history is old and gives the village a diverse built heritage. With this workcamp, the village wishes to preserve this heritage, restore it and give it back its due importance. It also wishes to enhance its hiking trails and thus allow visitors to fully appreciate their stopover in Saint-Martin-Valmeroux.
💼 What the programme involves
The village of Saint-Martin-Valmeroux has a varied built heritage. The project will focus on its rehabilitation. Small masonry and restoration work will be carried out on a fountain and a wash-house (public place set aside for the washing of clothes. Communal washing places were common in Europe until industrial washing was introduced). You will also be in charge of maintaining the hiking trails of the village: removing invasive plants, redefining paths. These trails are well frequented and your work will benefit all passing hikers. You will be supervised by the village technical team and the volunteers of the heritage association who will be happy to share their knowledge with you. You will work 4 to 5 hours a day.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in tents on the village s campsite where you will use shared sanitary and shower facilities. A kitchen will be set in a room on the campsite. You will take part in the collective cooking and cleaning.
📍 About the location
Saint-Martin-Valmeroux is a 850 inhabitant village located in the heart of the Auvergne Volcanoes Regional Park. You will be able to discover the heritage of the village, witness of its rich history: grain market, medieval church, fountains, bread oven (building for baking bread which can be found in archaeological sites from ancient times), public weighbridge and wash houses. To visit: Salers, a village labelled Plus Beau Village de France (most beautiful French village). To see: its mansions and houses with volcanic stone turrets. You will discover there a rich local gastronomy including cheese and meat.Numerous hikes pass through Saint-Martin-Valmeroux. They join and cross emblematic natural sites of the Auvergne Volcanoes Regional Park.
⚠️ Requirements
The restoration work of the small heritage will allow you to acquire knowledge in masonry: old technique, realization of mortar and repair of built elements. The second part of the work, more environmental, will introduce you to landscape and gardening techniques: handling pruning tools, pruning choices and pruning techniques.
ℹ️ Additional information
Chantier ouvert aux francais a partir de 17 ans
