Inspiration from cities & regions
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Paris, 29 October 2019 – The winners of the 2019 European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards, Europe’s top honour in the field, were celebrated this evening with the Grande Soirée du Patrimoine Européen at the recently restored Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. On this occasion, Plácido Domingo, President of Europa Nostra, the leading European
You probably already heard about Pão de Ló, a traditional sponge cake from Portugal. This past weekend, we had a chance to visit the city of Felgueiras and its authentic festival, dedicated to the famous Pão de Ló de Margaride. Felgueiras is part of the Porto district and the municipality prides itself in having one
Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities (CCSC) is a policy project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. The project brings together a consortium of ten organisations led by Trans Europe Halles, the European network of non-governmental cultural centres. Recently, we discovered a conference that caught our attention, not just because of
Our team recently visited Porto and attended the Portugal Fashion, the most important fashion industry event in the country. This was our first visit to Porto but we had high expectations – after visiting Lisbon, we are used to expect only good things associated with the brand “Portugal“. Indeed, the city didn’t disappoint us –
The 2019 edition of the Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism Awards is now open for applications. The theme of this year’s edition is “Culture and Heritage for Responsible, Innovative and Sustainable Tourism” and seeks to contribute to the legacy of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, including the European Framework for Action on Cultural
What is the potential of Cultural & Creative Industries (CCIs) in developing new Cultural & Creative Tourism (CCT) products and services for Growth & Jobs? We recently read an interesting overview of the project that is being advanced by the Cult-CreaTE project with policy change in 8 regions. Here you can read some excerpts or
As one of our passions is to share stories from creative and forward-looking places, we thought that it is important that our blog mentions the Barcelona Declaration “Better Places to Live, Better Places to Visit” which seeks to demonstrate what tourism and cultural heritage sectors can achieve by working more closely together, for the benefit of
We were very happy to attend the opening of the new expo in Brussels – dedicated to night clubs and the culture that surrounds it. The exhibition is titled Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today and is coproduced with Vitra Design Museum. It represents the first large-scale examination of the relationship between the club
In the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the EESC will be rewarding civil society projects that demonstrate the power of culture and common values to reunite Europe. For its 2018 Civil Society Prize, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will choose a winner from among five non-profit organisations – two from Germany and one