In Trencin (Slovakia) there is one of the many cemeteries of the 1st. World War, where buried fighters of various nationalities and unknown soldiers. The situation of evident degradation of this cemetery and its memorials, not conducive with the respect due to those who perished during that World War nor with those who make it […]
The “Zadar Islands” Elementary School, in cooperation with the Monastery of St. Francis in Zadar and the Municipality of Zadar, symbolically commemorated today the 660th Anniversary of the conclusion of the Zadar Peace, an important historical event that took place just in the sacristy of the Church of St. Francis on February 18, 1358. The […]
The European Network of Places of Peace Annual Meeting 2018 is scheduled for 4 and 5 May in the city of Bucharest, Romania, and will take place at Cotroceni Museum, located at Cotroceni Palace, the Romanian Presidential Palace (see photo). This meeting will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bucharest Peace Treaty and will be held […]
On 14 January 2018, there has been a book presentation in the House of Peace in Vasvár in which several publications were showed to the public, among them the proceedings of the last international conference on the battle of Saint-Gotthard and the peace treaty of Vasvár organized in 2014 both in Szentgotthárd and Vasvár. This […]
European Network of Places of Peace recently signed a Cooperation Protocol with the “Diário do Sul” Group, which publishes one of the most prestigious regional daily newspapers in Portugal and the most widely read in the entire southern region of the country. “Diário do Sul” Group also integrate a radio station (Rádio Telefonia do Alentejo) […]
On 28th November, Places of Peace Route was presented in the European Parliament during the meeting of EP’s Intergroup “European tourism development, cultural heritage, Ways of St. James and other European Cultural Routes” co-chaired by the Spanish MEP Francisco Millán Mon and with the support of Portuguese MEP Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar. Faced with an […]
ENPP decided to hold the 1st European Conference on Tourism and Peace in September 2018 in Leipzig, Germany, after having obtained from Mr. Amr Al-Ghaffar, Tourism and Peace Senior Advisor of the Secretary-General of World Tourism Organization, the confirmation of the support of this organization of the United Nations. Details of this support will be […]
At the invitation of MEP Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar, an ENPP delegation composed of Eduardo Basso, President of the Board and Apolónia Rodrigues, coordinator of Places of Peace Route, participated in the Conference “Trends & Dynamics_17 – Mega Drivers for Future Tourism”, a conference promoted in Lisbon for the third consecutive year by that Portuguese […]
In his book “From Lusitânia to Portugal – Two thousand years of history” recently published in Portugal on the main events which marked the history of Portugal Prof. Diogo Freitas do Amaral makes a reference to the ENPP when it addresses the issue of the Portuguese Liberal Wars of the early nineteenth century and the […]
The Association for the Promotion of Altranstädt Castle (Germany), as a member of the European Network of Places of Peace, commemorated the Poppy Day and at 11am last November 11 some members of the association met at the memorial of the fallen soldiers of the First World War and put down a container decorated with […]
