The Department of Culture, Education and Heritage is organising a series of four practical training workshops on dry-stone walling in October and November, to raise the profile and value of this heritage and promote its conservation, transmission and dissemination of dry stone as a heritage, as a craft and as a technique.
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The Consell de Eivissa organises four free dry-stone workshops in October and November
Each of the workshops will last 10 hours and the participants will be able to learn, through real practice, how to build a dry stone wall from the beginning of the process. The workshops are scheduled to take place at the Ethnographic Museum of Ibiza, located in Can Ros, in Puig de Missa (Padre Guasch, 07840 Santa Eulalia del Río), between Saturday and Sunday mornings, from 9 am to 2 pm.
Participation is free, although places are limited (10 participants maximum per workshop) and registration is compulsory.
Workshop 5 and 6 October: The registration period open between 20 and 25 September, both included.
Workshop 19 and 20 October: The registration period is open from 4 to 9 October inclusive.
Workshop 9 and 10 November: The registration period is open from 25 to 30 October inclusive.
Workshop 23 and 24 November: The registration period is open from 8 to 13 November inclusive.
For information and reservations, please get in touch with arxiuimatgeiso@gmail.com, indicating the name and surname(s) of the person(s) attending, as well as a contact telephone number. A maximum of two participants (over 18 years of age) may register for each registration. Registrations will be made in the order in which the e-mails are received.
Please note that this activity must take place outdoors and is subject to weather conditions; therefore, this timetable is a forecast that may be cancelled and/or modified.
Dry stone walls
Testimony to the integration of human activity into the landscape, for centuries the dry stone walls of Ibiza have ordered, delimited and shaped the countryside while creating rich ecosystems for many animal and plant species. Given their relevance in the island’s landscape and culture, on 26 January 2018, the Plenary of the Consell Insular de Eivissa approved the declaration of the traditional knowledge and procedures of dry-stone walling on the island of Eivissa as an Asset of Intangible Cultural Interest.
An integral part of the island’s landscape, dry stone walls are a reference point for the identity of many territories. So much so that, due to their great historical, landscape and environmental value, on 28 November UNESCO inscribed the knowledge and techniques of dry stone construction on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.