Archeolodida

Kalat summer camps

Since 1999, the municipality of Campobello di Licata, and the local seat of the "Archeoclub" have launched the Kalat project, a project of valorization of the territory according to the criterions of sustainable and cultural tourism, in order to second the economical reconversion of Sicily by tourism. To sustain such a reconversion the research activity, launched by the Kalat project, intends to contribute by developing a strong knowledge activity about territorial resources, calling back in Sicily young students and searchers and gathering sensibilities and local skills in a research and formation project.

From 1999 until today the Archeoclub have organized annual editions of international archaeological camps, carried out with the scientifical consultancy of Palermo's University and the supervision of the Superintendence of BBCCAA of Agrigento.

Until now, the realisation of the camps have allowed to activate, apart from the research and valorisation of the local archaeological patrimony, a tourism that led to the participation, by turns of one or two weeks, of about 600 young people, from 18 to 30 years old, coming from all parts of the world.

The youngsters commit themselves in a research activity of 20 to 40 hours a week and benefit from didactical and animation activities, like short drawing and archaeological photography lessons, with introductive lessons about sicilian lithic and ceramic typologies, about the treatment of materials, about history and about the local context. The program also comprises excursions to sites of extraordinary importance, located in the surroundings of Campobello di Licata , like the "Valle dei templi" ("Temples Valley") of Agrigento, the "Monte Saraceno", and the baroque city of Naro.