Category: Locations
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Algeciras (ES): Workshop FORTE CULTURA® Regionalcluster Campo de Gibraltar
On the initiative of our member La Línea de la Concepcíon (ES), representatives of fortress monuments and tourism professionals from the Campo de Gibraltar tourism region met for the first time to discuss the topic of “Developing regional fortress tourism with FORTE CULTURA®”. The requirements and objectives for fortress tourism in the region were discussed…
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Giżycko (PL): Giżycko Cultural Centre – Feste Boyen becomes the newest network member
Boyen Fortress was built from 1843 as a Prussian ring fortress in what is now Giżycko, formerly Lötzen, and was one of the most powerful fortresses in Masuria.
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Mainz (DE): FORTE CULTURA Annual Congress and General Assembly
The conference formed the framework for the general meeting of the European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network.
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Berlin (DE): FORTE CULTURA® at the ITB
The International Tourism Exchange Berlin once again offered a good opportunity for an exchange with network members, potential co-operation partners for fortress tourism and fortress marketing from all over the world.
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Madrid (ES): FORTE CULTURA® at the FITUR 2019
The Campo de Gibraltar stand at Spain’s largest international travel trade fair in Madrid was very busy. José Juan Franco Rodríguez, mayor of our network member La Línea de La Concepcíon, gave an impressive presentation of his fortress location La Línea and the European cultural route FORTE CULTURA® with information material and a vid- eo.
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Torgau (DE): Grenadierbataillon von Spiegel e.V. becomes a new network member
Torgau is the only large fortress system in Saxony that has been partially preserved.
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La Línea de la Concepción (ES) becomes the first Spanish network member
Mayor José Juan Franco Rodríguez signed the membership documents in mid-October, making his town of La Línea de la Concepción the first Spanish member of the network. The town is located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula and was founded in the 18th century in response to the conquest of the Gibraltar Peninsula by…
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Fortress town Germersheim (DE): 2nd symposium for the extension of fortress cooperation in the German-French border region Upper Rhine
Around 40 experts, tour guides and representatives of fortified monuments gathered in Germersheim at the beginning of July, including fortress cities such as Ulm, Landau (DE), Wissembourg, Strasbourg (FR), Feste Emperor Wilhelm II at Mutzig (FR)
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Fortress Rosenberg, Kronach (DE): Opening Ceremony of the “European Fortress Summer 2018” in the European Year of Cultural Heritage
On the 24th of April the European Fortress Summer 2018 was ceremoniously opened on the fortress Rosenberg.
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Festung Rosenberg, Kronach (DE): General Meeting 2018 with election of the Board of Directors
The general meeting of the European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network e.V. elected its new board at Rosenberg Fortress.
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FORTE CULTURA theme week in the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018
During the theme week, selected fortresses were presented on the Sharing Heritage Instagram page, including Königstein, Ehrenbreitstein and Kufstein.
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Karlovac (HR): Meeting on the EU project application “Monuments-4-CCI”
ECCOFORT is acting as lead applicant for a new project application for the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE programme.
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Berlin (DE): EFFORTS Founding Conference
International representatives of fortified monuments and interest groups met at Spandau Citadel to establish the „EFFORTS – European Federation of Fortified Sites“ network.
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Berlin (DE): Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme, 20th Anniversary Conference
The two-day anniversary conference was also the starting signal for the third call for project applications in the current funding period up to 2020 and the beginning of a series of information workshops for applicants. ECCOFORT took part in the anniversary conference in Berlin on behalf of FORTS- 2-MARKET and in a further workshop in…
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Königstein Fortress (Saxony) joins the network
Königstein Fortress is one of the most outstanding fortress monuments in Europe. For an even broader market presence and to intensify co-operation with European fortress monuments, especially on the Elbe, Königstein Fortress is joining the European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network e.V. and thus becoming part of the European Fortress Monuments Cultural Route „FORTE…
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Novi Sad (RS): Seminar Restoration, maintenance and commercialisation of fortresses, a national task in the context of European development
Experts from Serbia, Germany, Croatia, Switzerland and Turkey met at Petrovaradin Fortress to discuss transnational cooperation in the maintenance and marketing of fortresses in the Danube region. FORTE CULTURA and the European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network were pre- sented in detail in three lectures and with an image film. Around 50 participants, including…
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City of Ulm/Neu-Ulm (DE) becomes a network member, starting signal on the German Danube
On the occasion of the 8th Fortress Day, Mayor of Culture Iris Mann signed the certificate of accession to our fortress network on behalf of the city of Ulm/ Neu-Ulm at Wilhelmsburg Citadel. After the Great Fortress of Mainz, Ulm is the second fortress of the German Confederation that wants to gain new impulses for…
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City of Koblenz (DE) strengthens the FORTE CULTURA Cluster „Fortress Heritage Rhine- Main-Moselle“ as a new member
On 1 June 2017, Bert Flöck, Head of the Building Department of the City of Koblenz, officially declared his membership of the network and signed the declaration of accession.
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Germersheim (DE): Fortress conference „New opportunities for fortress tourism, fortress marketing and fortress cooperation in the Upper
As part of the fortress conference, the fortress town of Germersheim officially declared its membership of the European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network e.V. I
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Mainz (DE): Workshop fortress tourism, fortress marketing, fortress cooperation in the Rhine-Main-Moselle region
Representatives from the fortress sites in Mainz, Koblenz, Luxembourg, Germersheim, Rüsselsheim, Wesel, Büdingen and Trier-Pfalzel took part in the workshop.
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