Vice-president Pedro Bestard visits the students of this initiative, which aims to raise awareness of the importance of preserving the artisan technique of building margins or walls that form part of the landscape of the Tramontana mountain range.
The Second Vice-president and Minister of the Environment, Rural Affairs and Sports, Pedro Bestard, visited this Saturday the students participating in the Introductory Course to the construction of marges, which is taking place in the public estate of Galatzó, within the framework of the celebration of the European Dry Stone Week organised by the Consell de Mallorca.
This training is aimed at people interested in discovering the dry-stone technique. Over four weekends they learn how to build a marge, led by a marger from the Consell de Mallorca’s Department of the Environment. The activity, organised by the insular institution and the Town Hall of Calvià, celebrates its 16th edition with all the places covered.
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The Galatzó estate hosts a course to discover the construction of margins as part of the European Week of Dry Stone Heritage organised by the Consell de Mallorca
Pedro Bestard has been able to see first-hand how the participants of the course have started to work together in the elaboration of a piece of dry stone wall, following the instructions of the Mestre marger.
During the visit, second vice-president Pedro Bestard pointed out that ‘the goal of the course is to provide basic-level training, to promote good practices in dry-stone construction and, at the same time, to raise awareness of the importance of a technique included on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List since 2018’.
‘With this type of activity, we are raising awareness of the dry-stone culture, which forms part of the landscape of the Tramuntana mountain range, and we are also helping to keep this technique alive,’ Bestard added.
Excursion and volunteer day
The course is organised within the framework of the European Dry-Stone
Heritage Week, an event of the international association European Dry-Stone Network (REPS), during which its members celebrate in their respective countries the European Dry-Stone Heritage Week.
during which its members hold different activities in their respective regions intending to raise awareness of the importance of dry-stone heritage and disseminate the project to create a European cultural itinerary centred on this heritage.
The Consell de Mallorca has organised various activities that are taking place between 30 September and 6 October in different parts of the island. In addition to the course, this Saturday an excursion has been organised to the Ses Voltes d’en Galileu path in Escorca, which forms part of the Dry Stone Route, led by cultural guide Joan Carles Palos Nadal.
The activities are rounded off with the volunteering day, which offers a learning, recreational and experiential experience of heritage conservation. The participants will contribute to the maintenance of the Raixa path (in the municipality of Bunyola) of variant 5 of the Dry Stone Route, participating in the reconstruction of dry stone walls on a section of the path, with the help of the association Més que Pedra.