VERNAZZA (SP)

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About the project

VERNAZZA (SP)

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The project is in collaboration with the cultural association Tu Quoque born in the 2013 in Vernazza (SP) – Region Liguria. The association works for the land and the typical landscape conservation of the Cinque Terre through the taking care of them with the traditional knowledge and local culture. In the last years, in particural since 2011, the Cinque Terre were swept away by landslides and floods cause the strongs rains with big damages to the houses and the agricultural grounds terraced cultivated in vineyards and sustained by dry wall. Different farmers abandoned the care of the grounds and the vineyards. Some of these grounds have been given by the owners to the association "Tu quoque" to preserve the agricultural and historical patrimony of the territory. The project therefore foresees the reconstruction of dry wall of such grounds.

💼 What the programme involves

The volunteers will collaborate with local masters of dry wall to clear and sort the materials, firstly in small group and once learnt the process they can be involved in the positioning of the materials for the construction of the dry wall and the preservation of the cultures from abandonement. Work time table, depending on the weather, are 6,00-12,00; 17,00-19,00.

🏠 Accommodation on site

In the Convento of Reggio - Vernazza (SP) with dinner room, kitchen and different sleeping rooms. Breakfast and dinner in the Convento. Packed lunch. The volunteers will be involved in turns in the preparation of the meals and in taking care of the garden. A large, newly renovated mule track connects the sanctuary to Vernazza in about 25 minutes on foot (downhill). A bus takes you from the village to the sanctuary (bus ticket 1.50 per trip). Last bus ride at 19.00.

📍 About the location

Vernazza is a village in the Cinque Terre National Park. The village has had tourist influx since the ’60s with a discreet and international tourism, mainly of Germans, French and Americans. The 20/7 is the feast of the village for the patron S. Margherita.

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