Council of Europe cultural routes - Kulturrouten des Europarats

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Members of the Council of Europe

What is the Council of Europe?

The Council of Europe: Council of Europe CoE was founded in May 1949 and consists of 47 states with around 820 million citizens. It is a forum for general European questions and has the task of realizing cooperation among the members. The seat of the Council of Europe is the Palace of Europe in Strasbourg.

Similar terms:

• EU: European Union, currently 27 member states with around 450 million citizens
• European Council, official body of heads of state and government of EU
• Council of the European Union Council of Ministers

Tasks of the Council of Europe

The Council of Europe is a forum for debates on general European issues. In its framework, intergovernmental agreements that are binding under international law (Council of Europe conventions, such as the European Convention on Human Rights) are concluded with the aim of preserving the common heritage and promoting economic and social progress.

Since 1993 the Council of Europe has devoted itself more and more to safeguarding democratic security. These include in particular:

• the commitment to human rights
• the safeguarding of democratic principles] and
• fundamental principles of the rule of law
• Fight against terrorism
• Promoting economic and social progress
• Promotion of cultural cooperation

Cultural routes

What are cultural routes?

A route is a real or virtual connection between several places. Culture is understood to mean the things of a material or spiritual nature created by people, be it art, music, religion, technology,

In the beginning there were the cultural routes

In 1985, the realization of the cultural trails began. The Way of St. James was certified as a European cultural route as early as 1987. Typical for this type of cultural route:

• there are more or less well-marked paths
• they are transnational,
• there are direct connections and side paths.
• and with some cultural routes there are entire networks of roads and paths.

In order for them to be recognized as cultural routes, these routes must meet minimum requirements. Then they can get a certificate of their quality. This certification must be repeated every three years, otherwise it will be revoked. In the meantime, the cultural routes have been renamed Culture Routes.

European cultural routes

The cultural routes show the common cultural heritage of European citizens. They offer the possibility of a tourism in which these common values ​​can be shown.

Existing cultural routes

1. Way of St. James 1987
2. Hanse 1991
3. The cultural route of the Vikings (1993)
4. The Via Francigena (Franconian Ways, 1994)
5. The legacy of Al-Andalus (1997)
6. The Mozart-Ways (2002)
7. The routes of the Phoenicians (2003)
8. The Eisenstrasse in the Pyrenees (2004)
9. European routes of the Jewish Heritage (2004)
10. The Cluniac Sites in Europe (2005)
11. The streets of the Olive tree (2005)
12. The Martinusweg (2005)
13. The Via Regia (Königsstrasse, 2005)
14. Transromanica, the Romanesque Road of the European Cultural Heritage (the German part is the Romanesque Road, 2007)
15. Iter Vitis (the ways of the vineyards, 2009)
16. The Olavsweg (2010)
17. The ways of prehistoric stone art (2010)
18. The European Route of the Cistercian Abbeys (2010)
19. The European Route of Cemetery Culture (2010)
20. The European Route of Historic Thermal Towns (2010)
21. The European ceramic route (2012)
22. The European routes of megalithic culture (2013) (the section in Lower Saxony has been called since 2006 Street of the Megalithic Culture)
23. The European cultural long-distance hiking trail Huguenot and Waldensian trails (2013)
24. ATRIUM - Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes of the 20th Century in Europe’s Urban Memory (2014)
25. The European Art Nouveau Network (2014)
26. Via Habsburg (2014)
27. In the footsteps of Roman emperors and wine (2015)
28. The European ways of Emperor Karl V (2015)
29. In the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson (2015)
30. Destination Napoleon (2015)
31. Fortified Cities of the Grande Region (2016)
32. The Impressionism Routes (2018)
33. Via Charlemagne (2018)
34. The European Route of Industrial Heritage (2019)
35. The Iron Curtain Street (2019)
36. Le Corbusier Destinations: Architectural Promenades (2019)
37. The Route of the Liberation of Europe (2019)
38. The Routes of the Reformation (2019).
39. The European Route of Historic Gardens (2020)
40. Via Romea Germanica (2020)

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Web links

• Council of Europe homepage
• Cultural routes

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