FORTE CULTURA Network Activities

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Šibenik(HR): FORTIC Projekt und EFFORTS Kongress 2024

Šibenik(HR): FORTIC Projekt und EFFORTS Kongress 2024

Oct 27, 2024

Projekt FORTIC Konferenz & EFFORTS Jahreskongress „Nachhaltige Geschäftsmodelle für Befestigungen“ Der EFFORTS Jahreskongress 2024 fand im Rahmen des Projekts FORTIC (Interreg Italy – Croatia) in der St. John’s Festung in […]

European Heritage Days 2024

European Heritage Days 2024

Oct 17, 2024

HERITAGE OF ROUTES, NETWORKS AND CONNECTIONS Workshop FORTIFICATION ARCHITECTURE FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE: VALORIZATION OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN FORTIFICATIONS THROUGH CULTURAL ROUTES AND TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS of the University of Pula, TU [...]

Amsterdam (NL): FORTE CULTURA Pilot- und Studienreise

Amsterdam (NL): FORTE CULTURA Pilot- und Studienreise

Oct 5, 2024

Die unbekannte Festung – “Stelling van Amsterdam“ (von Hans-Rudolf Neumann); Vom 28. September bis zum 05. Oktober 2024 fand eine Pilot- und Studientour mit sieben internationalen Fachleuten aus Deutschland, der Schweiz, […]

Fortezza (IT) becomes FORTE CULTURA Station

Fortezza (IT) becomes FORTE CULTURA Station

Oct 1, 2024

The Franzensfeste fortress has guarded the Brenner Pass on the Italian side since 1838. With its 65,000 square metres of building area, it is the largest historical complex in South Tyrol. This masterpiece of Austrian fortress architecture extends over [...]

Casemate MO-S5 in flood, Ostrava (CZ)

Flood 2024 - Fortress monuments in need

Sep 20, 2024

Unfortunately, the current flood situation in Eastern Europe has also left its mark on the fortress monuments there. In Ostrava in the Czech Republic, the Oder has burst its banks to such an extent that [...]

Vicksburg National Military Park, USA

FORTE CULTURA in the USA

Sep 16, 2024

Dirk Röder travelled around the mid-south of the USA in search of various fortress sites and museums of military history. In Vicksburg Mississippi, the Vicksburg National Military Park preserves [...]

The board and advisory board of the Förderverein Bayerische Landesfestung Ingolstadt e.V. present the new leaflet

Ingolstadt (DE): New leaflet about Fort Prinz Karl

Aug 3, 2024

The Förderverein Bayerische Landesfestung Ingolstadt e.V. has published a large leaflet on Fort Prinz Karl. It shows an elaborate three-dimensional reconstruction of the fortress as it was in 1895 after the reinforcement measures [...]

Standing with giants at The British Memorial, Normandy Photo: Friedrich Wein

80 years of D-Day Normandy - On site with FORTE CULTURA

Jun 19, 2024

A travelogue by Friedrich Wein Kehl - Strasbourg - Nancy - Toul - Reims - Versailles and finally: Normandy. The names and the number of interesting places with fortress monuments and [...]

Photo: Dirk Röder, FORTE CULTURA Vice President and Director of the Cultural Route, hands over a notebook as a donation to Oleh Pohorilets, Director of the Medzhybizh Fortress (UA).

FORTE CULTURA donation for the Ukraine

Jun 4, 2024

FORTE CULTURA donates a notebook to the partner fortress Medzhybizh in the Ukraine.

Kiev Fortress ©Bechamel

Kiev (UA): National Historical-Architectural Museum "Kiev Fortress" becomes FORTE CULTURA Station

May 15, 2024

Kiev Fortress is a monumental complex of former Russian fortresses from the 17th-19th centuries. The complex is one of the largest preserved fortresses in Europe. Visitors can see a unique permanent exhibition on the history of artillery [...]

Suomenlinna, Helsinki (FI): EFFORTS board meeting and workshops

Suomenlinna, Helsinki (FI): EFFORTS board meeting and workshops

Apr 28, 2024

The impressive Suomenlinna Fortress hosted this year's board meeting of EFFORTS (European Federation of Fortfied Sites). In addition to a hybrid meeting to coordinate current and future activities of the network, the main focus was on [...]

Poznan (PL): 5th International Biehler-Fort Conference

Poznan (PL): 5th International Biehler-Fort Conference

Apr 28, 2024

by Friedrich Wein Numerous participants at the Interfest Annual General Meeting took the opportunity to visit another fortress city. The week following the Annual General Meeting, from 22/04/2024 - 27/04/2024, the 5th International [...]



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