European Route of Cemetery Culture
The European Route of Cemetery Culture is a Council of Europe cultural route that was certified by the Council of Europe in 2010 . With this action, historical burial sites have been defined as tourist attractions for a broad public for the first time. The carrier of the route is the ASCE (Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe) founded in 2001 .
The initiators are not interested in offering a route to be followed by cultural tourists, but rather using the list of cemeteries to point out to those interested that there is a cemetery worth seeing in the region or city they are visiting.
In June 2011 the United Nations World Tourism Organization ( UNWTO ) honored the European Route of Cemetery Culture with its Ulysses Award , a prize intended for innovative projects in the tourism sector.
Participating cemeteries
The European Route of Cemetery Culture includes cemeteries in Bosnia-Herzegovina , Denmark , Germany , Estonia , France , Greece , Great Britain , Ireland , Italy , Croatia , Norway , Austria , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russia , Sweden , Serbia , Slovenia and Spain included.
The certified cemeteries are in:
- Arenys de Mar
- Athens
- Avilés
- Barcelona , Cementiri de Montjuïc
- Belgrade
- Berlin , Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof ; Cemetery of those who died in March ; Cemeteries in front of Hallesches Tor ; Old St. Marien and St. Nikolai cemetery ; Old St. Matthew Cemetery ; Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery ; Southwest cemetery Stahnsdorf
- Bilbao
- Bologna
- Bucharest
- Cagliari
- Cordoba
- Dublin
- Moose
- Florence
- Genoa , Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno
- Granada
- Hamburg , Ohlsdorfer Friedhof
- Igualada
- Copenhagen , Assistance Cemetery
- Krakow
- Lecco
- Ljubljana
- London
- Lugo
- Madrid
- Málaga
- Maribor
- Novosibirsk
- Oslo
- Paris , Pere-Lachaise
- Parma
- postage
- Potsdam , Protestant cemetery
- Reus
- Rome
- San Sebastian
- Santander
- Sarajevo
- Sitges
- Stockholm
- Tallinn
- Valencia
- Varaždin
- Vienna , Vienna Central Cemetery
- Zagreb
Web links
- Homepage of the route (in English)
- Barbara Leisner: The cemeteries on the European route of cemetery culture , May 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Barbara Leisner: The European route of the cemetery culture . OHLSDORF - magazine for the culture of mourning . Issue 116, February 2012