The Consell de Mallorca’s sports campus in Colònia de Sant Pere focuses on the upcoming Olympics, with new underwater activities, recycling workshops and anthropometric tests.

Acampaesport, the sports camps for children and teenagers organised by the Consell de Mallorca and one of the most popular programmes of the Sports Department, is already underway. A season in which more than 1,500 boys and girls participate in eleven shifts, who carry out daily physical activity surrounded by sea and mountain in the Colonia de Sant Pere, in Artà.

Acampaesport

TDB keeps you informed. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

The second vice-president and councillor of Environment, Rural Environment and Sports, Pedro Bestard, the insular director of Sports, Toni Prats, and the sports technician of Artà, Llorenç Terrassa, have visited the groups that have started the summer doing sport, making a route of accompaniment of the activity of canoeing. Bestard has valued that “it is a dynamic campus, with a lot of activity and very specific in Mallorca”.

The children take part in up to 20 activities over seven days, divided into age groups and taught by qualified instructors. An intense agenda that includes individual and team sports – handball, basketball, hockey, tennis, etc. – and adventure activities such as mountain biking, canoeing and paddle surfing. The Consell de Mallorca’s sports activities also reserve some SEN places for children with special needs, which account for 2% of the total.

Olympism, recycling and anthropometric studies

In 2024, as a novelty, Acampaesport focuses on the Olympic theme, with specific activities and tournaments for groups. Likewise, the adolescent group will be introduced to scuba diving, a practice that the Council has set up in collaboration with the Balearic Federation of Underwater Activities.

A new workshop is also being held to collect waste that is difficult to recycle on the coast and in the nearby woods (plastics, cigarette butts, bags, cans, etc.), and recycled games will be created with the material found, such as the classic tic-tac-toe. “An activity to raise awareness so that young people understand the importance of caring for what is part of their culture: the Mallorcan landscape,” said Bestard.