“PLACES OF PEACE ROUTE” is a virtual route stretching from Portugal to Ukraine, linking sites in Europe where peace treaties were signed, identifying and promoting them with the objective of developing the spirit of culture of peace among European populations, especially young people, and to increase the number of visitors around this Intangible Heritage.

Due to its characteristics and geographical dimension (its westernmost place and its easternmost place are more than 3,000 km apart), the Places of Peace Route is a virtual Route supported by the creation of localized tourist products and the joint promotion and dissemination of the sites which make up it.

More than 300 sites are known in Europe, covering almost all the current European countries, which throughout history attended the signing of peace treaties, ending wars but also providing the advent of extended periods of social and economic development of regions, countries or kingdoms to which they belong.

PLACES OF PEACE ROUTE selects the sites where Peace Treaties were signed involving the peoples of the regions where were signed, which are an integral part of the collective memory of those people and its institutions who recognize them as theiras Intangible Cultural Heritage, which are already being used or are interested in being used as a means of its tourism promotion and conducting regular celebrations on the dates that have been signed, regardless of the current population and urban dimension of those places.

The creation of a Route connecting the places in Europe where Peace Treaties were signed has been a statutory objective of ENPP since 2010, the year of the Association’s legal constitution. Such a Route – the Places of Peace Route – could be a factor in promoting these places both in terms of their visibility and in terms of their tourist development.

To this end, it also remains an objective of ENPP to classify this Route as a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, and it is hoped that it will be possible to achieve this objective in the coming years.