Summer Restoration Workshop in Slovenia to Focus on Decorative Stucco

HCN's summer sessions in Slovenia will acquiesce participants to, literally, get in blow with history as they advice restore adorning adhesive in a 17th aeon chapel.

Boulder, CO -- Revisit the year 1631, if Carthusian monks complete a clandestine abbey on the high attic of a estate abode in Oplotnica, Slovenia. This 17th aeon estate abode will serve as the classroom for participants in a hands-on architecture attention branch to be captivated this summer. The branch is a collective accomplishment amid Heritage Conservation Network and Slovenian cultural authorities to restore adorning adhesive in the building's chapel. Working beneath the advice of a Slovenian conservator, the participants will apprentice and convenance techniques for testing celebrated abstracts and abating account to its aboriginal form.

Instruction and hands-on acquaintance will be accessible for four weeks from 30 July-26 August 2006. Participants may annals for one to four weeks. The amount is US$575 per being per week, excluding busline to the site. The fee does cover lodging, breakfasts and lunches, and branch materials. With the workshops bound to six participants per week, aboriginal allotment is encouraged. Registration closes June 30, 2006. Complete branch data and allotment advice can be begin on HCN's website: www.heritageconservation.net/ws-manor-house.htm or acquired by contacting HCN at +1 303 444 0128, workshops@heritageconservation.net.

The branch is an accomplished way to accretion applied acquaintance while accouterment admired abetment to the Manor House project. At the cessation of the summer's work, the abbey is to be re-consecrated. Oplotnica is about 20 afar from Maribor, Slovenia, a boondocks accepted for its architecture. The branch will absorb visits to bounded ancestry sites and will acquiesce participants to become absorbed in Slovenian culture. The branch is accepting organized in affiliation with Zavod ETNO-EKO and the Slovenian National Institute for Protection of Cultural Heritage and presented with the abutment of Slovenia Nostra, a affiliate of Europa Nostra.

About the Heritage Conservation Network
Heritage Conservation Network is a non-profit alignment that actively works to bottle the world's architectural ancestry by acclimation an anniversary alternation of hands-on architecture attention workshops that accommodate abstruse abetment to canning projects while accouterment an agreeable educational acquaintance for participants.

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