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UNWTO Congress highlights the role of Cultural Routes in Competitive Tourism

The 2nd International Congress on World Civilizations and Historical Routes held on 16 and 17 September in the city of Sofia explored how tourism along historic routes can help to safeguard and promote tangible and intangible cultural heritage and concludes that historic routes can play a major role in revealing the unique history, culture and […]

300 YEARS OF THE PEACE TREATY OF PASSAROWITZ (POZAREVÁC)

The treaty of Passarowitz (today, Pozarevác, Republic of Serbia) was concluded 300 years ago in 1718 after the military victories of the Habsburg Monarchy against the Ottoman Empire that originally started war on the Republic of Venice. After the first commemoration at the Michel Montaigne University in Bordeaux in June, another international conference was held […]

BAUTZEN (GERMANY) IS THE LATEST MEMBER OF ENPP

The German city of Bautzen (Saxony) is the latest ENPP member, represented by the association STEINHAUS, e.V. which works closely with the local municipality. The city of Bautzen is located in Saxony, Germany with about 40.000 inhabitants and on January 1018 a Peace Treaty between the Holy Roman Empire and Poland was signed in the city. […]

Open Monument Day celebrated in Altranstädt Castle (Germany)

The Association for the Promotion of  Altranstädt Castle in Germany, founding member of ENPP, celebrated the Open Monument Day 2018 with several events which attracted many visitors to the place where on September 24, 1706 an Interim Peace was signed during the Great Northern War (1700-1721) between August II, the Strong and Karl XII, of […]

Bicycle Tour For Peace in Kaynardzha, Bulgaria

On 21st September, the Municipality of Kaynardzha, Bulgaria, a member of ENPP since 2015 will organized a Bicycle Tour, coinciding with the UN World Day of Peace according the  UN General Assembly declaration  and resolution taked in 1981. For the first time this day is celebrated on the initiative of UNESCO in 1984. Under the […]

Hubertusburg Youth Peace Prize – the practice of culture of peace

In parallel with the Hubertusburg Peace Talks, the exhibition of works by young students under the Peace theme as well as the presentation of their prizes, will be held at the Hubertusburg Castle at an organization of the Hubertusburg Castle Friendship Association, member of ENPP, in cooperation with the Saxon Ministry of Culture and the […]

Hubertusburg Peace Talks on 14 and 15 September

The 7th edition of “Hubertusburg Peace Talks” will take place next 14th and 15th September at the Castle of Hubertusburg  (Wermsdorf, Germany) under the theme “Earn each other – do we live in (un) peace?” and will be organized, like the previous ones, by the Hubertusburg Castle Friendship Association, founding member of the European Network […]

PEACE TOUR – ALCÁÇOVAS/ EVORAMONTE (Portugal) on September 22

The Peace Tour – Alcáçovas/Évora Monte (Portugal), an initiative of the European Network of Places of Peace and the Municipality of Viana do Alentejo operated by the tour operator RSI-Viagens, Estremoz, will return on Saturday, September 22. The main purpose of the Peace Tour is to make known the places where the two Peace Treaties […]

EVORAMONTE (Portugal) WITH A NEW VISITING SPACE

In the Old Town Hall, one of the noble buildings of Evoramonte Castle (Portugal) recovered in 2016, opened last Saturday, August 4, a new space of visit on the initiative of a local wine company in partnership with the Civil Parish of Evoramonte , owner of the building. The new space is made up of […]