📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
For the first time, the municipality of Ségur les Villas is going to organize an international workcamp. In the region of the Cézallier Cantalien, at the heart of the Santoire river valley, there is Ségur les Villas : a village center and ten hamlets, with old houses and charming fountains. In 2014, the municipality acquires its first flower of « Flowery village ». This label shows the quality of the living environment and that Ségur les Villas is really attractive for tourists. In the same vein, the municipality wants to work to renovate its local heritage, which is sometimes in poor condition.
For more information about Ségur les Villas : www.cezallier.org/segur/
💼 What the programme involves
At the moment, the bread oven of the Villas hamlet disappears under a real heap of brushwood.The workcamp aim is to make it visible for the inhabitants and visitors. Thus, there is a lot of work to cut brushwood back, to level the ground around the bread oven, to clean and sort the stones, in order to highlight the ruins and to give its place back to the bread oven in the village. You will participate to the work with other international volunteers and a technical supervisor will teach you specific techniques. The work takes place the morning for 5 hours maximum. Afternoon and weekends are dedicated to activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will sleep under tents, in the village center of Ségur les Villas : the best way to fit well in the local life ! Mattress will be provided, don't forget your sleeping bag and warm clothes. Next to this place, there is the foot stadium with cloakrooms, showers ans toilets. There will be a room too for you to eat together. You will cook successively, with local products bought to the village grocery. Jeunesse et Reconstruction can't take charge of you if you arrive before the beginning of the workcamp.
📍 About the location
In the heart of the Cézallier altitude plateaux, Ségur les Villas owns a particularly remarkable historical heritage, in a unrivalled natural environment. The Valentine Chapel (XIIIe century) overhangs the Santoire valley, and you will admire, from this citadel, the must-see view on the Limon plateau, between Cantal Mounts, Mont Dore and Cézallier. You would cross hiking trails among peatlands, which are full of plants and wildlife : the Vial peatland, with its scottish atmosphere, the Jolan lake, a remarkable Natura 2000 area, protected for all nature friends. Visits are organized in the Gazelle water mill, which has been restored with original pieces, in a village full of character. It's up to you to go to meet the inhabitants, to discover their way of living, their customs, the treasures of this region. You will enjoy quickly its wealth ! For more information : http://www.tourismecezallier.com/index.php/fr/home