CAT09 St. Iscle's Castle: looking for a past Solidarités Jeunesses

PARTENAIRE

The organization in charge of the work camp is the "Grup d'Esplai Vidrerenc", a group of volunteers from the same village - Vildres - who organize different leisure activities throughout the year for kids and youth. The work camp is part of their summer programme and It's main objectives correspond to supporting the growth of kids and young people by contributing to their development as human beings. Being fully able and actively integrated with the civic society in a creative way, and offering them the correct tools for realizing themselves in whatever field they wish to.

Localisation

Vidreres, Espagne

gare la plus proche

Bus station in Barcelona: - "Estació del Nord": https://barcelonanord.barcelona/en - "Estació de Sants": https://www.alsa.com/en/web/bus/bus-stations/barcelona-station Train station in Barcelona: -"Estació de Sants": https://www.renfe-sncf.com/es-es/servicios/estaciones/Paginas/barcelona-sants.aspx

Remarques

The meeting point will be the14th of August at 5pm in the local school of Vidreres called "Escola Salvador Espriu".

By public transportation:
By train/bus:

From "Estació de Sants" train station in Barcelona, take the train R11 (line Barcelona to Portbou) and stop in Sils.
Check times here: http://rodalies.gencat.cat/web/.content/02_Horaris/horaris/R11.pdf
From Sils, you have to take a local bus to Vidreres.
The company is "Autocars R.Mas" and the bus line is (Lloret to Girona).
Check times here: http://www.atmgirona.cat/upload/doc/linies/rOOhcsDkIe.pdf

By bus:

From "Estació del Nord" bus station in Barcelona, take the bus with the company "Sarfa" straight to Vidreres.
Check times here: https://compras.moventis.es/online/

Travail

The work camp will take place in the St. Iscle Castle, in Vidreres. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and share experience in a multicultural environment for two weeks while acquiring archealogical and cultural knowledge and at the meantime enjoying the wildlife of the surrounding area in the respect of the nature.

The main task for the participants of this work camp consists in putting in place some excavation and restoring activities in the remaining areas around the St. Iscle Castle. The technical work of the project will be in a full archaelogical excavation that aims to restore and rehabilitate the chosen area.
The work will be organized as follows: small groups of young people will be made, part of which, on a rotating basis, will do tasks of cleaning and classification of the archaeological material, while the rest will dig each of the sectors described.
Participants will be provided with the necessary tools and the archelogists that will support them and will teach them the necessary methodology for excavating and restoring the ruins, and the participants will make also drawings and photographs of the different structures.

Logement & nourriture

The accommodation is in the ''Escola Salvador Espriu'', that is the Primary School in Vidreres.
The participants will sleep in the gym of the school, equipped with mattresses and wardrobes.
The toilets and showers of the school will be available to the participants, and all the meals provided will be prepared by a external catering and served in the school's dining hall.

Emplacement & temps libre

The work camp will take place in the St. Iscle Castle, in Vidreres that is a town of the XII Century, a municipality of Girona province, and the castle is an important symbol of historical heritage in Catalonia.
There will be various free time activities offered to the participants, such as: visits to "Lloret", "Estanys de Sils" or "Montseny" area.