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THE DOLMEN TRAIL AND STONE WALL | CONCF-3404 | 2024-07-31 - 2024-08-14 | RENO,ENVI | Age: 18 - 99

This is the first partnership with this small community. The local councillors want to enhance and maintain the small village s heritage. They also want to welcome young people from France and abroad to this small village to create a lively atmosphere and facilitate exchanges and moments of sharing with the inhabitants.

Work: Do you love heritage and nature and want to help out? Come and help to enhance a communal path in Cesseras that leads to an old dolmen. You ll also have the chance to work on a dry-stone wall that has collapsed beside a path. As you continue your walk, you will come across a very old chapel, of which only the foundations remain. You can carry out some maintenance work to enhance it. The municipality is keen to maintain its footpaths for the enjoyment of walkers. Discover the rich heritage of the municipality and the surrounding area. Your job will be to enhance the site by carrying out minor landscaping work and clearing undergrowth. This work is essential to maintain the path while allowing visitors, walkers and the curious from all walks of life to come and discover this small heritage site!

Accomodation and food: The accommodation will be at the local gite. Sleeping in a dormitory and communal living in a municipal room provided for the group. You will share in the various collective tasks and prepare meals together. A budget will be allocated to the leaders and you will help with the shopping and meal preparation, giving priority to healthy, local produce.

Location: CESSERAS

Location and Leisure: Cesseras is a small village of 430 inhabitants located in the south-west of the Hérault department in the south of France. Benefiting from a Mediterranean climate and a remarkable natural environment, the site of the village of Cesseras has been frequented for thousands of years. This is evidenced by the 6,000-year-old footprints and cave paintings discovered in the famous Coquille cave (Aldène cave), and the Cigalière dolmen on the Causse. If you re a nature and heritage lover, you can stroll among the vines to the sound of the cicadas, take part in outdoor activities, go to the river or explore the surrounding area. From Minerve to Olargues, classified as the most beautiful villages in France, the Minervois villages will delight you with their unusual charm and emblematic character. You can also make cultural discoveries and share festive moments with the locals.

Airport: CCF

Train/Bus station: CESSERAS BUS STATION

Requirements: Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and will then be reimbursed once back in their home country.

CESSERAS BUS STATION at 17h

Language: eng

Extra Fee: 0

Remember to bring gloves, clothes and shoes for work. Nights can be chilly, so bring a good warm duvet. It is strongly recommended that you can swim if you want to enjoy the river. Feel free to bring something you would like to share with others (a speciality from your country, a musical instrument, an object from your culture etc.)