European Route of Cemetery Culture

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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:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barbara Leisner: The European route of the cemetery culture . OHLSDORF - magazine for the culture of mourning . Issue 116, February 2012