Place: Goult (Vaucluse)

Participants: Adults

Workcamp description:

As part of the enhancement of the Conservatoire des Terrasses de Culture and the many walks that leave from the Moulin de Jérusalem, the commune of Goult is entrusting Opus, from 2025, with the construction of a large calade on the Chemin de la Roche Redonne, the access road to the Conservatoire site, to make access easier for walkers.

The special feature of this project is that the calade will not occupy the entire surface of the ground, and will have to blend harmoniously with the existing rock outcrops.

Work programme:

• Manual clearing or cleaning of the rock slab
• Storing and sorting the stones
• Laying 30m2 of stone
• Filling the joints

Building technique: Stone cobble on a bed of dry lime mortar

Special bonus : The workcamp is located between the Luberon and the Monts de Vaucluse, two exceptional natural landscapes of world renown.

Event during the workcamp: You might just stumble across a treasure at the International Antiques and Brocante Fair in the French capital of antiques.

Accommodation:
You will be accommodated in the old dojo and will sleep in the hall converted into mixed dormitories on inflatable mattresses. You'll have folding shelves to store your personal belongings for a comfortable stay. You will have access to separate male and female changing rooms. The communal living area will be in the salle du 3ème âge, a large room with tables and chairs, equipped with a kitchen, a 2-minute walk from the old dojo. You can bring your own matress.

Workcamp life:
During your stay, you will be supervised by 2 activity leaders. The technical supervisor will teach you all about traditional building techniques, and the educational supervisor will help you organize your daily life and leisure activities.

Adults spend around 30 hours a week working on the site. Work on the site takes place in the mornings, starting early because of the summer heat. The afternoons, evenings and weekends are devoted to outdoor and discovery activities, providing relaxation and pleasure. Two vehicles are made available to the supervisors to organize outings.

You will take it in turns to prepare meals as a team. You'll take it in turns to prepare meals as a team, giving you the chance to share recipes from your own region and sample countless specialities from other parts of the world. If you're already a “chef”, that's perfect; if you're not... Get cooking!

On all our sites, we want our volunteers to play a real role in their stay, so we invite them to work together to propose the activities and events of their choice, in keeping with the values that the association wishes to uphold.

Some ideas for excursions: Hikes in the Luberon, the Monts de Vaucluse, the Calavon valley or the ochre of Roussillon, visits to villages: Fontaine de Vaucluse and the source of the Sorgue, Apt, Gordes, Oppède, discovery of the Sorgue on foot or by canoe.

A little bit of history:

The village of Goult, situated opposite the Luberon between such famous villages as Gordes, Roussillon and Ménerbes, is nicknamed ‘the hidden village’. However, it has nothing to envy from the surrounding villages, as the beauty of its buildings and narrow streets charms all visitors.

Stone is omnipresent in this village of 1,200 souls, which boasts a number of remarkable sites and buildings: the castle, the Jerusalem mill dating from the 18th century, the Conservatoire des terrasses de culture, the 12th-century Saint-Sébastien church listed as a Historic Monument, the Romanesque chapel of Saint-Véran, the sanctuary of Notre-Dame de Lumière, etc.

In the Monts de Vaucluse and the Luberon, dry stone is everywhere in the landscape, and Goult is no exception to the rule: the Conservatoire des Terrasses de Culture is a remarkable landscape site that can be reached on foot from the Moulin de Jérusalem via a stony communal path known as the Chemin de la Roche Redonne. The Conservatoire des Terrasses de Culture, which was restored by Opus in the 1980s, bears witness to an exceptional architectural and agricultural heritage, mainly made up of restanques (terraces in Provençal) which occupy a natural amphitheatre, protected from the Mistral and heavy frosts thanks to its south-facing position.

This museographic site, open to the public, is a showcase for the best use of dry stone: hutches, bories, low walls, flying staircases, cisterns and beehive shelters are all waiting to be discovered.

Conditions of participation

Participation fee: €150

Registration fees: see the website www.rempart.com 

Living expenses include: food, collective accommodation; leisure activities and travel during the work camp; civil liability insurance and association membership.
Not included: round-trip travel costs; personal and health expenses.

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