Reintegración, remodelación y mejora de las funciones turísticas de la fortaleza de Dömitz Socio del proyecto: Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Tecnológica de Varsovia, Ayuntamiento de Dömitz, FORTE CULTURA e.V. Red de la […]

El Monumento Cultural Nacional Vyšehrad de Praga se convierte en el primer miembro de FORTE CULTURA en la República Checa. La fortaleza situada sobre el río Moldava ofrece unas vistas preciosas de la capital checa […]

The Bundesbank bunker in Cochem was a carefully guarded and camouflaged secret of the FRG for decades. During the Cold War, 15 billion Deutschmarks were stored here on around 1,500 […]

Now that the municipality of Bellheim has joined the FORTE CULTURA network, a large section of the Queich line has become a new stop on the European Cultural Route. The […]

29 miembros e invitados de 7 países se reunieron en la Asamblea General de FORTE CULTURA 2021 en la Fortaleza de Königstein (Sajonia). Bajo la dirección de Dirk Röder, la Junta Ejecutiva y el Consejo Científico […]

Como parte del proyecto Interreg – IPA CBC FORTITUDE, en octubre se celebró en la ciudad fortificada de Karlovac un taller especializado sobre el tema del patrimonio y la promoción, en el marco de […]

In Bergen op Zoom came EFFORTS with Liberation Route Europe and FORTE CULTURA to discuss the role of fortresses in the Second World War. Fortresses were often used as concentration […]

Under the title “Reintegration, renovation and upgrading of the tourist functions of Dömitz Fortress”, students from Warsaw University of Technology visited Dömitz Fortress at the beginning of the winter semester. […]

La ciudad fortificada de ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch, para abreviar) es la capital de la provincia neerlandesa de Brabante Septentrional y cuenta con un extraordinario patrimonio fortificado, con sus murallas y su ciudadela. […]

El Four à Chaux, en Lembach, es una fortificación subterránea de la Línea Maginot del siglo XX. Gestionado y organizado por la Asociación de Amigos de la Línea Maginot […]

FORTE CULTURA meets renew Europe in the fortress and confirmation town of Ziegenhain. At the end of August, the town of Ziegenhain and the Renew Europe political group took the […]

The Upper Rhine region is one of the European regions with the most fortified monuments from 2000 years of history. Since the fortified town of Germersheim joined FORTE CULTURA in […]

Conferencia de evaluación en línea sobre las mejores prácticas europeas 6. Mai 2021, Pula (HR), organizado por FORTE CULTURA y Juraj Dobrila Universität en Pula (HR) El comité científico conjunto FORTE CULTURA / [...]

The European Fortress Summer 2021 was launched at a press conference in Germersheim on 15 April. The campaign developed by FORTE CULTURA in 2018 to market summer events in fortresses […]

On the initiative of the fortress town of Germersheim, supported by the PAMINA Eurodistrict and the Baden-Alsace-Palatinate Tourist Association (Vis-à-Vis), FORTE CULTURA has developed a fortress flyer with a map, […]

We welcome the regional fortress group “Fortresses and defence history on the Upper Rhine 1929-1999” with the Dettenheim Bunker Museum, the Hausach Bunker Tour, the Hornisgrinde Bunker, the Neumühl Camouflage […]

With the signing of the membership application by Mayor Erich Spamer, the town of Büdingen has be- come the latest FORTE CULTURA member. The Upper Hessian fortress town not only […]

Sandomierz is located on the western bank of the Vistula in the Holy Cross Voivodeship. The formerly fortified old town with its central town hall square is home to buildings […]

La solicitud de certificación de FORTE CULTURA® como “Ruta Cultural del Consejo de Europa” se presentó en Luxemburgo justo a tiempo antes de que finalizara el plazo. FORTE CULTURA® es, por lo tanto, […]

The Srebrna Gora fortress is the highest mountain fortress in Europe. Built between 1765 and 1777, it reinforced the defence of the Prussian state borders in Lower Silesia. The Silberberg […]

La red de la Federación Europea de Sitios Fortificados (EFFORTS), con sede en Bruselas, se fundó en 2017 en la Ciudadela de Spandau. Como organización de presión, EFFORTS es el punto de encuentro entre las instituciones europeas […]

At this year’s virtual Annual General Meeting, far-reaching resolutions were passed that will have a lasting impact on the development of our network and cultural routes. The most striking change […]

FORTE CULTURA is now using social media to increase its reach Facebook and Instagram. While the Instagram account is aimed more at the general public, the Facebook account is more […]

The network office provides a comprehensive information and strategy paper on dealing with the “C19 consequences” in fortified monuments. It contains information and recommendations for ensuring the safest possible conditions […]

Fort Grauerort, a Prussian fortress pearl on the Elbe, was built in the 19th century and developed into an attractive cultural location in the Hanseatic city of Stade under the […]

At the end of February, representatives of the fortresses in Stade, Königstein, Terezín (CZ), Torgau, Pirna, Magdeburg and Dresden (here Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten Sachsen gGmbH) as well as […]

The Berlin-based association organises guided tours and excursions to architectural legacies from the Cold War era (barracks, airfields and bunkers). The association is also committed to preserving the most modern […]

El Museo Real de las Fuerzas Armadas de Bruselas fue un lugar impresionante para la Conferencia Anual y Exposición 2020 de Liberation Routes Europe (LRE). Dirk Röder representó a FORTE CULTURA®. En […]

In memory and remembrance of the many victims of the last major German offensive in the West, known as “Unternehmen NORDWIND”, 75 years ago, 18 fortifications on both sides of […]

Rüsselsheim Fortress is located directly on the River Main and is now the second former Hessian state fortress in our network after Ziegenhain. The fortress is home to the Rüsselsheim […]

Dömitz Fortress is widely known along the Elbe. What is far less well known is that the fortress is actually the citadel of the former fortified ideal town of Dömitz, […]

A finales de agosto de 2019, la histórica fortaleza de Petrovaradin, en Novi Sad (Serbia), acogió una conferencia internacional interdisciplinar titulada “Fortalezas del mañana: Equilibrio entre la salvaguarda del patrimonio cultural y el entretenimiento”.”

La ciudad fortificada de Amberes acogió la reunión general de este año de la EFFORTS (Federación Europea de Sitios Fortificados), durante la cual Dirk Röder (European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network e.V.) fue […]

Los monumentos fortificados y la Segunda Guerra Mundial tienen muchos puntos en común. La ruta cultural europea “Liberation Route Europe”, certificada por el Consejo de Europa en 2019, recorre los lugares de recuerdo […]

The Polish curator of the FORTE CULTURA® Scientific Advisory Board, Marcin Gorski, gave the introductory lecture during the symposium “One Hundred Years of Cologne’s Green Lung – From Historical Defence […]

Tras los debates mantenidos en la reunión anual de las rutas culturales en Sibiu, representantes de las Rutas de la Reforma y FORTE CULTURA® se reunieron en Berlín para debatir sobre interfaces […]

Ziegenhain no solo es una impresionante ciudad fortificada y, por lo tanto, una parada en la ruta cultural FORTE CULTURA, sino que también forma parte de la red GrimmHeimat y Rotkäppchenland, y toca […]

Ohrid is a town in the south-west of the Republic of North Macedonia on Lake Ohrid on the border with Albania. The town is known for its medieval churches and […]

Rainer Nitsche, Deputy Mayor of Magdeburg in Department III Economy, Tourism and Regional Cooperation, opened the “2nd Elbe Fortress Cultural Heritage Forum”, which was attended by the Mayor of Dömitz […]

Alrededor de 80 representantes de las rutas culturales europeas, el Instituto de Rutas Culturales de Luxemburgo y los Estados miembros de la EPA* se reunieron en Sibiu (Rumanía) para celebrar la reunión anual del Consejo de Europa sobre rutas culturales.

Por el Dr. Hans-Rudolf Neumann En el marco de un viaje piloto de FORTE CULTURA a Malta y Gozo, se establecieron los primeros contactos con la organización estatal maltesa de protección del patrimonio cultural HERITAGE MALTA. Los cuatro europeos […]

Representatives of the Chinese city of Shouzhou, the European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network, ECCOFORT and ICOFORT signed a memorandum of understanding in Spandau Citadel on the development of friendly and cooperative relations for fortress tourism and marketing.

El simposio de este año se centró en la cooperación transfronteriza entre los monumentos fortificados del Alto Rin. Los primeros resultados del proyecto de la comunidad turística “Vis-á-Vis” (Baden-Alsacia-Palatinado) para desarrollar módulos turísticos regionales […]

Bajo la dirección de la directora de Asuntos Culturales de Coblenza, la Dra. Margit Theis-Scholz, el taller reunió a unos 20 participantes de diferentes departamentos para debatir el futuro de la fortaleza de Coblenza en relación con […]

How can the 25 historic fortresses along the Elbe support each other in marketing themselves to tourists? This was the key question at a  conference that brought together 15 representatives of important Elbe fortifications from Germany and the Czech Republic at Königstein Fortress.

Four long-standing tour guides from the town of Germersheim have successfully completed their qualification as tour guides with a FORTE CULTURA® certificate. To mark the occasion, Mayor Marcus Schaile presented […]

Por iniciativa de nuestro miembro La Línea de la Concepción (ES), representantes de monumentos fortificados y profesionales del turismo de la región turística del Campo de Gibraltar se reunieron por primera vez […]

La fortaleza de Boyen se construyó a partir de 1843 como una fortaleza prusiana en lo que hoy es Giżycko, anteriormente Lötzen, y fue una de las fortalezas más poderosas de Masuria.

The conference formed the framework for the general meeting of the European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network.

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.

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 […]

Torgau is the only large fortress system in Saxony that has been partially preserved.

Alrededor de 200 participantes de más de 20 países se reunieron en Görlitz para la reunión anual del Instituto Europeo de Itinerarios Culturales.

The European Fortress Summer 2018 came to a close with the Cologne Fortress Days at the end of September. 18 fortress monuments from 9 countries have taken part in the […]

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 […]

En Turín, expertos en fortalezas de 19 países presentaron sus avances y conclusiones en los campos de la investigación histórica, la investigación arquitectónica, la georreferenciación, el patrimonio digital, la cultura y la gestión, así como el concepto […]

A principios de julio, alrededor de 40 expertos, guías turísticos y representantes de monumentos fortificados se reunieron en Germersheim, entre ellos ciudades fortificadas como Ulm, Landau (Alemania), Wissembourg, Estrasburgo (Francia) y la fortaleza del emperador Guillermo II en Mutzig (Francia).

On the occasion of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018, the Directorate General for Cultural Heritage Rehinland-Palatinate organized the “European Day for the Preservation of Monuments” in Trier together with […]

La asamblea general de la European Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network e.V. eligió a su nueva junta directiva en la fortaleza de Rosenberg.

On the 24th of April the European Fortress Summer 2018 was ceremoniously opened on the fortress Rosenberg.

During the theme week, selected fortresses were presented on the Sharing Heritage Instagram page, including Königstein, Ehrenbreitstein and Kufstein.

ECCOFORT is acting as lead applicant for a new project application for the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE programme.

Dirk Röder presented FORTE CULTURA, the European cultural route for monuments, as an exemplary instrument for the valorisation of historical cultural heritage.

Representantes internacionales de monumentos fortificados y grupos de interés se reunieron en la Ciudadela de Spandau para crear la red „EFFORTS – Federación Europea de Sitios Fortificados“.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

El 1 de junio de 2017, Bert Flöck, jefe del Departamento de Urbanismo de la ciudad de Coblenza, declaró oficialmente su adhesión a la red y firmó la declaración de adhesión.

La asociación „Amigos de la Línea Maginot en Alsacia“ es una de las organizaciones activas que preservan y mantienen el patrimonio fortificado del siglo XX. Hoy en día, desempeñan un papel importante en la revalorización de la historia, la educación y la información de la población sobre los efectos de la guerra y la destrucción.

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

Representantes de los emplazamientos fortificados de Maguncia, Coblenza, Luxemburgo, Germersheim, Rüsselsheim, Wesel, Büdingen y Tréveris-Pfalzel participaron en el taller.

As part of the City of Mainz‘s membership, the local stakeholders discussed the fortress heritage of the City of Mainz…

Erika Farkas presentó la Ruta Cultural Europea de Monumentos Fortificados FORTE CULTURA® y la Red Europea de Turismo y Marketing de Fortificaciones a 67 participantes de 7 países en Arad, Rumanía.

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Erika Farkas, Fort Monostor, organised the fortress conference „future for forts (f³) in Komarom. The programme focused on the valorisation of the fortified cultural heritage in Central Europe.

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ECCOFORT se reúne con 12 fortificaciones en 6 países de Europa Central Como socio del proyecto, el Centro Europeo de Cooperación del Patrimonio Fortificado reg.ass. -ECCOFORT- fue responsable del desarrollo de la cultura […]

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The concluding conference of the Forte Cultura project in Kostrzyn nad Odra that lasted from November 24 to 27 was accompanied by a small but highly captivating exhibition in Berlin Gate – the visitors centre of the fortress museum Kostrzyn.

With international participation, on 26th November 2014, the project FORTE CULTURA finished successfully with the final meeting in Kostrzyn nad Odra. During the two-day conference, the most important results of the project work packages were presented.

With the foundation and legalisation of the “Association of Fortress Tourism and Fortress Marketing Network” – “FORTS-2-MARKET” – in November 2014, there is now the guarantee to continue networking, marketing and tourism development of FORTE CULTURA in a wider range.

The first European Contact Tour of the Culture Route FORTE CULTURA started on the 30th of August 2014.

With a dedicated speech, the Italian deputy of the European Council, Mr. Alberto d’Alessandro, has expressed his appreciation for FORTE CULTURA during the implementation conference on 8 October 2014 in Verona.

Ms Agnieszka Żurawska- Tatała took part in a co- funded by the European Union Pesto Conference on the promotion and networking of EU projects in Graz (Austria) on the 2nd and 3rd of October 2014 promoting the project Forte Cultura and learning new practices concerning tourism.

“Kostrzyn fortress virtual model” is a visualization which shows 3D elements complied with historical imaging from the years: 1920 – 1925 and was created within the framework of the project “Forte Cultura – Capitalising of fortified cultural heritage for sustainable development and competitiveness of cities and regions”.

In August of 2014, the Fortress of Kufstein was officially confirmed by the Joint Technical Secretariat of the EC in Vienna as new project partner in the developing FORTE CULTURA culture route.

La región de Lviv, en Ucrania, fue incluida inicialmente como duodécimo socio en el proyecto FORTE CULTURA. Sin embargo, los recientes acontecimientos políticos, sociales y militares en el país no han permitido a la ciudad cooperar activamente en el marco del proyecto.

On the 4th and 5th of July 2014 at the Citadel in Erfurt the lead partner, project partners and guests participated in a workshop on the fortresses society impact and integration strategies.

There was a “Valorisation of traditional knowledge and expertise for protection of fortified heritage”, held as a part of the WP 6 a transnational workshop on the 27 and 28th of May 2014 at the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Slovenia – Restoration Center (RESCEN) in Ljubljana.

Los días 9 y 10 de abril de 2014 se celebró en Josefov la tercera Conferencia Europea de Ciudades Fortificadas Ideales en el marco del proyecto FORTE CULTURA. A la conferencia asistieron 31 expertos y representantes de diez países europeos: República Checa, Croacia, Dinamarca, Francia, Alemania, Letonia, Polonia, Rumanía, Países Bajos y Ucrania.

During the annual ITB in Berlin the new project FORTE CULTURA caused a considerable stir. Not only the Director of the European Cultural Routes Institute of Luxembourg, Penelope Denu, has been enthusiastic when she accept with great pleasure the first newsletter of the project, but also the Scientific Coordinator and co-developer of the project, Dr.-Ing. Hans-Rudolf Neumann, ECCOFORT reg.ass. Berlin.

On the 10th of January 2014 there was a contract signed with the company COCOMO to conduct the realisation of “Kostrzyn fortress virtual model”.

Project partners of WP 6 met with other guests on 5th November 2013 in the Starhemberg Palace in Vienna to an open discussion about the applicability of the European heritage label for the area of historic fortifications.

During the International Conference „Interpretation of Built Heritage“ at 30th September 2013 of Punjab Heritage and Tourism Promotion Board in Chandigarh Dr.-Ing. arch. Hans-Rudolf Neumann, Vice Chairman and Scientific Coordinator of ECCOFORT reg. ass., was invited as speaker.

During an event of the University of Pula as member of the South East European EU funding project ADRIFORT on 15th and 16th September 2013 in Pula / Croatia, ICOMOS / ICOFORT expert and co-developer of the Central European EU funding project FORTE CULTURA Dr.-Ing. Hans-Rudolf Neumann was invited as speaker.