General Concept of Culture Route FORTE CULTURA

Output 5.1.5

Responsible Project partner: Humboldt-University at Berlin assisted from ECCOFORT reg.ass.

The general concept for the European culture route FORTE CULTURA should be the platform for a common trans-national culture route development between the Baltic and Adriatic Sea, including all project participating fortresses and further fortress monuments from all Central European countries.

This concept defines the master conditions, criteria and characteristic of new tourist product culture route fortified monuments, their main structure and elements, especially:

• the aims and the content of route development
• the including bodies and external institutions (like tour operator)
• the target groups and the organisation procedures
• the selection and implementation of attractive fortress destinations in different cities and regions in all CE-countries
• the collection of basic information for route development
• thematic differentiation of separate route offers, - the optimal course, - time schedule and responsibilities.

The concept should prepare the basis for an effective route development in a short time between fortress monuments in Central Europe. The concept was prepared with trans-national work package 5 meeting (output 5.1.1) and special trans-national seminar to quality criteria of a culture route (output 5.1.4), lectured from experienced culture managers, from associated institution European Culture Route Institute and from ECCOFORT with information transfer of lessons learned from Baltic Fort Route development.

Both activities, are open for Central Europe fortress monuments, guarantees transnational knowledge collection and implementing into the concept.

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Heritage monuments fortress in Franconia

Output: 5.1.10

Prototype of journey

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