Residential
ISC Spain · Alicante
Summer Camp · Alicante · Language · 12–18 yrs
Typically open in June — 2027 dates coming soon
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Ages10–13 yrs
Language lessonsEnglish & Spanish
SeasonJun – Jul 2027
Duration6 nights
Pyrene Summer Camp runs this residential camp in Lles de Cerdanya, Spain. The camp welcomes children aged 10–13, with languages on the programme. 3 sessions scheduled Jun 27 – Jul 31, 2027, each lasting 6 nights. Activities run in English and Spanish.
Residential camp in Lles de Cerdanya, Spain
Beginner's Horse Riding is a week on horseback for riders aged 10 to 13 who are starting out, set in the Cerdanya valley in the heart of the Catalan Pyrenees. The idea is simple and absorbing: a horse and you, seven days riding out through the valley, and a camp pitched in the middle of the woods to come back to. Groups stay small, with just thirteen places per shift, and the team around them is made up of local monitors from these same valleys who are professionals in education and sport, alongside native English-speaking monitors from the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Catalan, Spanish and English all circulate at camp, with around 30% of participants coming from abroad, so English is picked up naturally rather than taught at a desk. Life here is deliberately unplugged and close to nature, in a camp that runs on solar-heated water, foldable facilities and local suppliers, so children leave with new friends, new confidence in the saddle and a taste for the mountains.
Dates & Pricing
Activities
This is a single-focus week: riders aged 10 to 13 who are new to horses spend seven days learning with one horse and travelling with it around the Cerdanya valley, so the days follow the rhythm of the ride rather than a timetable of rotating workshops. With only thirteen places per shift, the group moves together and each child builds up confidence step by step, from handling and care to riding out across valley terrain. Between rides, life unfolds at the woodland campsite shared with the other Pyrene groups, where meals, evenings and camp chores are part of the learning. English runs through the whole week thanks to the native English-speaking monitors, and the deliberately phone-free, low-impact setting keeps attention on the horses, the mountains and the group.
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Safety & Supervision
Children are looked after by a team of monitors who live and work in these Pyrenean valleys year-round and are professionals in education and sport, joined each summer by native English-speaking monitors from the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Group size is kept deliberately small on this programme, with only thirteen places per weekly shift, so each rider is known individually and progress in the saddle can be followed closely. International participants are met in person by the Pyrene team at Barcelona Airport or at the train station, so a child is accompanied from arrival right through to the campsite.
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Screen time policy
The week is built around disconnecting: Pyrene asks campers to forget about their phones and reconnect instead with nature, with new friends and with themselves. With days spent riding through the valley and evenings in a campsite in the woods, screens simply have no place in the rhythm of the stay.
Cancellation Policy
What you get back depends on when you cancel — select a session for exact dates.
100% refund
30+ days before start
No refund
Under 30 days before start
Booking30 daysCamp starts
The booking deposit is non-refundable — the refund percentages above apply to the remaining balance only.
Accommodation & campus
Tents
Campers sleep out in the middle of the woods, with lightning in the night sky and rain on their faces part of the experience rather than something to hide from. The campsite is built from mobile and foldable facilities that are taken down at the end of the season, leaving the forest exactly as it was, and hot water comes from solar panels, so showers after a day's riding carry no CO2 emissions. All waste produced at camp is recycled, and daily life is organised around simplicity and shared responsibility among the group.
The campus
Woodland campsite in the Cerdanya valley, in the Catalan Pyrenees
The camp sits in the forest of the Cerdanya valley, surrounded by the peaks and rivers that make up the riding terrain, and it is designed to leave no trace: the facilities are mobile and foldable, hot water is heated by solar panels, and the camp makes use of existing public facilities instead of building new ones. Food and supplies come from responsible local suppliers in the valley, and all waste is recycled, so the campsite works as a small, self-contained community in the middle of the woods.
Campus facilities
Mobile and foldable campsite facilities
Solar-panel heated hot water
On-site recycling
Location & getting there
Cap de Rec, 25726 Lles de Cerdanya, Lleida, Espanya
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Getting your child there
Airport
€80 · optionalBarcelona El Prat Airport
Pickup service · For international families, the Pyrene team meets children at Barcelona El Prat Airport every Sunday between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. for the journey up to the camp in the Cerdanya valley, and brings them back to the airport every Saturday between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The transfer is booked as an option when you reserve the place, one way or return.
Train station
€20 · optionalPuigcerdà station
Pickup service · The greenest way to arrive is by train: take the R3 Rodalies line to Puigcerdà, and a Pyrene monitor collects your child at the station and drives them the rest of the way to camp. The station transfer is added as an option at booking, one way or return.
Train station
Latour-de-Carol – Enveitg station
Pickup service · Families travelling from elsewhere in Europe can come by SNCF train to Latour-de-Carol – Enveitg, which arrives directly in the Pyrenees next to the Cerdanya valley, where the camp team handles the pick-up to the campsite.
Shuttle
€80 · optionalBarcelona city and surroundings
Pickup service · A road transfer from Barcelona and its surrounding area is offered as a booking option for families not using the airport, available one way or return and arranged at the time of reservation.
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