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Roman Cooking

This workshop aims at getting participants acquainted with Roman cooking and presents Roman food cooked from the recipes of Apicius, a famous gastronome living at the time of Emperor Tiberius (1rst century A.D.). The workshop gives the opportunity...

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Fauna and flora

Participants will be invited to discover the different species of our wildlife through walks and workshops :
sowing, planting, collecting honey, building up a collection of dried plants, observing the local fauna ... They
will taste natural...

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Paleolithic painting

Participants will discover the first form of art ever practiced by Man in the prehistoric caves some 35000 years ago. They will get acquainted with the painting techniques of those nomad populations and they will discover their...

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Pottery

Round 5000 B.C. various groups of people coming from Central and Eastern Europe sailed up the Danube and introduced the technique of ceramics into our regions. This workshop invites participants to discover our history while teaching them how to make...

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Bread

The first farmers-cattle breeders used to make bread as early as 7000 years ago. During this workshop
participants will have the opportunity to grind grain, to make their own bread the way it was done during the Neolithic and to bake it just...

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Initiation to archaeology

Archaeology is not intended to finding treasures but first of all to studying Man’s past through the material
traces he has left: foundations of a house, leftovers of a meal, traces of a tool, a tomb, ...
Therefore archaeologists carry out...

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Writing

Writing first appeared as a consequence of the need to preserve and to pass on information and know-how down through the centuries; it marks off the end of Prehistory and the beginning of History. In the course of a workshop come and learn the...

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Working with fibres and wool, dyeing and weaving

This kind of crafts first appeared in our region as early as the Neolithic, round 5000 B.C. Within the framework
of this workshop participants will learn how to card, to spin, to dye and to weave wool as well as vegetal fibres.
The dyeing...

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Roman Painting

During the Gallo-Roman period mural painting - among which fresco( i.e. paint applied on a fresh coating) as
well as tempera (paint applied on a dry coating) - was used in order to embellish the interior walls of Roman buildings, be they...

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Esparto work

Esparto work consists in weaving various species of grass in order to make items of everyday life. Creating
small volumes through weaving and knitting techniques, this is indeed the aim of this workshop by using
natural materials, which...

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