Seven sites associated with the signing of Peace Treaties and active in disseminating a Culture of Peace, located in six Member States of the European Union, have been awarded the European Heritage Label by the European Commission during the 2025 evaluation period.
The sites that have obtained the European Heritage Label are as follows:
St. Francis Monastery (Zadar, Croatia); Park of the Historical Fountain of Kaynardzha (Kaynardzha, Bulgaria), Paço dos Henriques (Alcáçovas, Portugal), Convention House of Evoramonte (Evoramonte, Portugal), Convento de San Francisco/Historical Complex of Alcañices (Alcañices, Spain), House of Peace (Vasvár, Hungary) and Trencin Castle (Trencin, Slovakia).
The European Heritage Label (EHL) distinguishes sites that, through their symbolic value, the role they have played in European history, and the activities they carry out, symbolize European ideals, values, history, and integration.
In the text justifying the awarding of the Label, the European Commission highlights that these seven sites, as collective heritage, illustrate peace not as an isolated event, but as a recurring European process, also noting that these sites are united by their role in formalizing peace agreements that reshaped territories, power relations, and governance systems across Europe and introduced principles of dialogue, compromise, and legal order that gradually replaced violent confrontation as a means of resolving disputes between states and communities.
Learn more about the awarding of the “Places of Peace” Label here.
Learn more about the award sites at: EHL “Places of Peace” Application – Selection 2025 (pdf)
