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La Cité des Templiers Camp

Camps Location

VILLAGE DES ENFANTS DE MOULÈS (Base Camp).
Located on top of a tree-covered hill, at the border of the “Causse de Larzac”, our camp is a real Medieval village built by farmers and shepherds in the early 15th century. Isolated, it has kept its authenticity and charm through the centuries, with its traditional architecture, its stables, its communal oven, and its typical Medieval passages.

Children and Counselors sleep in bungalow tents (5 to 6 beds) on cement floors, with lights, beds and closets. The tents are located in the woods at the border of the village, in the shade!

Shower facilities and also plenty of rooms for activities including a small library, and a swimming pool are available on site at the village.

A few steps away, a professional horseback riding center offers our campers a special activity room with educational books and objects relating to the history of horseback riding in the region. Well trained ponie are available on site for children to enjoy each day! (all levels).

Theme

During their stay children will learn the skills to become an Ecuyer : a Knight’s apprentice (10 Days: 3 x 2 hrs). And later become a Knight (10 days: 3x 2hrs) : horseback riding, making of weapons, creation and painting of the coat of arms…and of course learn how to respect the Honor Code of the Knights Templar.

Activities

Medieval workshops: campers experience the medieval lifestyle by making costumes, tools and weapons (leather and stone work), pottery, sculpture, or baking bread in the villages’old communal oven.

Initiation to the techniques of Medieval Calligraphy

Pony / Horseback riding (6 two hour sessions / 20 days session or 3 two hours session / 10 days session).
H orseback riding itinerary and camping trip.

Theater workshop: introduction to theater, improvisation contests, juggling, accrobatics, danse and music…Campers will work on their practice of the languageand learn scenes as they will produce and be part of a Medieval Show in front of a real audience!

At the end of the session, after campers have been dubed KNIGHTS, they will receive a special Certificate to take home !

Field Trips

Treasure hunt in the fortified Templar city of St. Eulalie de Cernon, with its network of medieval streets, its towers and walls built in the 15th Century by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem AND/OR in the fortified medieval village of La Couvertoirade and its authentic Templar castle and church built in the 12th Century.

Visit of the Medieval castle of Montaigut.

Camping trip (1 day): night in St. Eulalie de Cernon, the most well-preserved commandery in France!

Extra Activities

Adventure Trail (1 day( 20 days session only), hiking, swimming, arts & crafts, medieval games and banquets.