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LEG19 Poggio alla Malva International Workcamp

full information are available in the infosheet_Poggio alla Malva 2014 that you have already received by e-mail. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY Infosheet

DATES: 14th July-28th July

LOCATION: Poggio alla Malva is a small location displaced in the Comune of Carmignano (Po). Please visit the web site http://www.comune.carmignano.po.it/ . Carmignano counts 14.000 inhabitants. This Municipality covers an area where historical, landscape and wine-gastronomic heritage are well represented. Thanks to its position between Prato and Florence, this lovely place is especially wonderful for its views and green countryside. Poggio alla Malva is also very close to the UNESCO site “Artimino’s Villa” a renaissance structure world-wide famous for its hundred chimney tops. The location of poggio alla Malva is inside the “Artimino natural protected area”. http://www.areeprotette.provincia.prato.it/Artimino/artimino.php

MEETING POINT
The meeting point will be in SIGNA (florence) TRAIN STATION. The 1° Meeting point will be on Monday 14th July at 2.00 p.m (14.00). The 2° Meeting point will be on Monday 14th July at 7.00 p.m (19.00)

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES:

Volunteers will be involved in working activities for about 30 hours per week.
Poggio alla Malva has a strong hystorical heritage. During the 2° world war a Italian partisan named Ariodante Naldi born in Poggio alla Malva, gave his life to honour its ideals. Close to Poggio alla Malva the train railway connected the close NOBEL TNT factory to the main cities of Italy. The group of yougsters partisans where Ariodante Naldi was part of decided to sabotage the TNT products that were designated to the war attacks by the Nazi front by attacking the railway. The partisans action leaded to the explosion of 11 wagon full of dynamite and the 4 young partisan died during the night of the explosion 11th June 1944. This important historical fact is still very alive in the local community. The aim of the workcamp is to restore and clean the landside pathway that these young partisans were walked through to reach the railway line from Poggio alla Malva village. Part of this pathway is now called “the resistance pathway”; another part is to be located thanks to old maps reconstruction. Volunteers will be called to clean, re-open and assess the growing vegetation in order to give a “new life” to this legendary pathway. By restoring this pathway, an important Risk prevention strategy will be accomplished because by cleaning this pathway a new fire-escape way will be recovered in case of fire/emergency in Poggio alla Malva.

LEG19 Poggio alla Malva_Carmignano International Workcamp will join the initiative ENERGY FREE DAY

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