CE68-PJ : 13-10-2017 FDC 1st DAY Council of Europe "30 years European Cultural Routes"

COUNCIL OF EUROPE 30 years of Cultural Routes

A Culture Route of the Council of Europe, sometimes referred to as a European Cultural Route is a title awarded to cultural routes recognised as significant throughout Europe by the Council of Europe through promoting shared culture, history, memory and European integration. These routes must also match some fundamental values promoted by the Council of Europe such as democracy, human rights and intercultural exchanges in the framework of cultural tourism.

The programme was launched in 1987 and is managed by the European Institute of Cultural Routes (EICR) based in Luxembourg since 1989. Since 2010, the evaluation and certification-awarding process is made possible by the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes (EPA).

In early 2017, 32 Cultural Routes were certified as listed below :

• The Santiago De Compostela Pilgrim Routes (1987)
• The Hansa (1991)
• The Viking Routes (1993)
• The Via Francigena (1994)
• The Routes of El legado andalusí (1997)
• European Mozart Ways (2002)
• The Phoenicians’ Route (2003)
• The Pyrenean Iron Route (2004)
• The Saint Martin of Tours Route (2005)
• The Cluniac Sites in Europe (2005)
• The Routes of the Olive Tree (2005)
• The Via Regia (2005)
• TRANSROMANICA (2007)
• The Iter Vitis Route (2009)
• The European Route of Cistercian abbeys (2010)
• The European Cemeteries Route (2010)
• Prehistoric Rock Art Trails (2010)
• European Route of Historic Thermal Towns (2010)
• The Route of Saint Olav Ways (2010)
• The European Route of Jewish Heritage (2004)
• The Casadean Sites (2012)
• The European Route of Ceramics (2012)
• The European Route of Megalithic Culture (2013)
• The Huguenot and Waldensian trail (2013)
• ATRIUM - Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes of the 20th Century in Europe's Urban Memory (2014)
• The Réseau Art Nouveau Network (2014)
• Via Habsburg (2014)
• The Roman Emperors and Danube Wine Route (2015)
• In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson (2015)
• Destination Napoleon (2015)
• The European routes of emperor Charles V (2015)
• Route of the fortified towns of the Greater Region (2016)