A 121-hectare Ecopark in Calabria, southern Italy.
Each speaks to a different audience. All are nourished by the same landscape.
Guided immersive experiences in nature, with themed workshops. Outdoor experience, free play, educational farm. On the trail of Rumi, the hermit of the woods.
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Innovative workshops for personal evolution inside a living landscape. Nature literacy, mindful walks, poetry yoga, EMDR, family constellations, ecology of being.
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A stay at Gaya — just enough to let the place work inside. One dwelling per plant, one kitchen per season, two walks a day, evenings without screens. You return home with the rhythm of the land within.
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The Gaya Fest in July (3 days of music, words, earth), cultural reviews, concerts in the olive grove, open days. All through the Social Promotion Association.
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1,500 olive trees, mostly centuries old, Ottobratica cultivar. Never treated. Never forced to produce more. Picked on the right day, milled within eight hours, organic.
The national grid hasn't reached us yet. We've turned the absence into a choice.
Photovoltaic panels for electricity, storage batteries for the night, solar thermal panels in bathrooms, kitchen, and the Seme dwelling for hot water. There's almost always power for everything — occasionally, after several rainy days in a row, it's worth saving a bit. The light that warms your water here is the same one you see on the olive grove.
Over the years Gaya has been told by newspapers, TV programmes, podcasts, networks of the Third Sector. Six stories that looked at us from the outside (Italian sources).
It costs you nothing. To Gaya, it changes everything.
If you file your taxes in Italy, choose APS Gaya — Mondo di Unione for your 5×1000 (the Italian system that lets you direct a 0.5% of your taxes to a non-profit at no extra cost). You support educational programs for children, experiential training, cultural events, care of the land. Just write our Tax ID.