Around 80 representatives  of  European  cultural routes, the Cultural Routes Institute from Luxembourg and the EPA* member states met for the annual meeting of the Council of Europe’s cultural routes in Sibiu, Romania. FORTE CULTURA® and the European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Mar- keting Network presented themselves as candidates for certification as a Council of Europe Cultural Route in the 2020/21 evaluation round.

During the 3-day conference, many contacts were made with the representatives of the EPA* countries in order to further implement FORTE CULTURA® as a cultural route in Europe. Opportunities for co- operation and synergies with other European cultur- al routes were also discussed.

*EPA=Extended Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe