23 participants from 6 countries met at the first FORTE CULTURA Online Member Meeting (OMM) at the end of November to discuss current projects and activities in their fortress locations. Filippo Cailotto held...

Oleg Pogorelets, director of the Ukrainian fortress Medzhybizh, and Dirk Röder (FORTE CULTURA), met at the German-Polish border to exchange news and discuss upcoming activities. Oleg reported on the war...

Thanks to funding from the Aktion Mensch lottery totalling €4,674.50, a new circular route in plain language has been established at Fort Gorgast. In the project of the "#1 Barrier...

27 members and guests met at Fort Gorgast for the annual conference of the BDB Brandenburg district group. Introduced by welcoming speeches from Tino Krebs (Golzow district director), guest lectures by Dirk Röder and...

The 10-day fortress tour led by Dr Hans-Rudolf Neumann included fortress monuments in Rome and the province of Latio, including areas of the Campo Trincerato fortress ring in Rome, Castel Sant'Angelo and Vatican City, Vejano, Ostia,...

A medieval festival at Rasnov Fortress was the occasion for an international creative seminar with workshops to develop sustainable utilisation and management models for the fortress, which is currently being renovated. 30...

19 partners of the Franco-German cooperation of fortresses and museums on the Upper Rhine met at the Hotel-Restaurant Grindel Hütte on the Hornisgrinde to discuss current topics of cross-border cooperation. Guests of honour...

The Windischleuba moated castle was built as early as 925 as a border fortress to protect the neighbouring town of Altenburg and was later converted into a fortified castle. For a long time it was owned by the counts of...

As part of the "#1 Barrier less" funding programme of the Aktion Mensch lottery, FORTE CULTURA and the fortress town of Germersheim have already developed a circular route for blind and visually impaired people in 2021, which...

The meeting room in the tower of the Ingolstadt Army Museum, which dates back to 1420, provided the perfect setting to discuss the future of the Bavarian fortress in connection with FORTE CULTURA. The...

The Barone, St. John and St. Michael fortresses, managed by "Cultural Fortress Šibenik", have been extensively renovated in the last 10 years and equipped with a wide range of leisure and educational functions. They are among...

There may not be 1001 fortresses in Morocco, but the 14-day pilot and study tour led by Dr Hans-Rudolf Neumann included more than 20 fascinating fortress monuments in Morocco and Ceuta (ES),...

Feste Kaiser Franz receives fortress flyer in plain language As part of the "#1 Barrier less" funding programme of the Aktion Mensch lottery, FORTE CULTURA and the fortress city of Koblenz (owned by the city of Koblenz) have...

The Bavarian state fortress of Ingolstadt was expanded over five eras to become the large fortress system it is today. On both sides of the Danube, there are some very well-preserved fortifications from five centuries, which show the Renaissance fortress, the expansion...

Cooperation in the field of fortified cultural heritage in the Adriatic region; Sustainable fortress tourism and integration with FORTE CULTURA;Launch of European Fortress Summer 2023 29-31 March 2023, Šibenik (HR) Historic fortresses are an exceptional architectural and cultural...

In the German-Polish border region to the east of Berlin, the new tourism brand "Remembrance connects" Oder-Warthe has been developed over the last 4 years. The project, financed as part of the EU funding programme Interreg V-A Brandenburg-Lubuskie,...

After a long Corona break, ITB2023 took place again at the beginning of March at the Exhibition Centre at the Radio Tower in Berlin. FORTE CULTURA took the opportunity to find out about the latest trends and...

The Aktion Mensch lottery has approved further project funding for FORTE CULTURA e.V. to remove barriers, this time at Fort Gorgast (DE). 4,674.50 was approved for the creation of a circular path with...

The Rasnov (Rosenau) fortress is picturesquely situated on a mountain above the town of the same name in Transylvania, Romania. The "peasant castle" is a refuge dating back to the 14th century and offered defence in times of...

The Provincial Council of A Coruña (Diputación de A Coruña) in Galicia, Spain, has invited experts and best practices from all over Europe to Ferrol to discuss the development of the important cultural heritage of...

San Marino is one of the oldest republics in the world. The small state in the south-west of the Italian province of Emilia-Romagna also has a distinctive fortress heritage, some of which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. So...

Fort Gorgast was built at the end of the 19th century and is an outer fort of the former fortress of Küstrin (Kostrzyn nad Odrą, PL). The Prussian Biehlerfort is the only one of the 4 outer forts of the...