Katarínka

The St Catherine's Monastery preservation project is intended for young volunteers aged from 17 from all over Slovakia. The four two-week summer camps in July and August take place every year. Our goals are: - Preservation and conservation of the ruins plus its complex archeological, historical, preservation and geophysical research - Clearing and maintenance of the surrounding nature reserve Katarína (keeping order, education path, elimination of fireplaces…) - Giving young people a chance to spend two weeks in the wild far from civilization - Proving that enthusiastic and determined young volunteers are able to preserve valuable cultural monument Project is organized in close collaboration with the Preservation Office in Trnava, the Dechtice municipal authority, the State Forest Enterprise “Forests of the Slovak Republic” in Smolenice, the Regional Studies Museum in Hlohovec, the Western Slovakian Museum in Trnava (at the beginning also with Archeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra), and the Franciscan Order. The project is supported by subsidies from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and by numerous sponsors.