Veranstaltungen

These days the 25th Mediterranean Fair of Archaeological Tourism took place in Paestum, where under the auspices of the Association of Historic Towns of Slovenia, the Dolenjski Museum Novo mesto, the Posavina Museum of Brežice and the Provincial Museum of Ptuj-Ormož presented their cities and their rich archaeological heritage.
Dolenjski museum Novo mesto also represented the Iron Age Danube Route at the fair.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Dear colleagues!
The Natural History Museum Vienna and the Federal Monuments Authority Austria would like to invite you to the conference
Sacred Places - Sacrifices - Feasts
La Tène cult practices in archaeological context
from
May 16 – 18, 2024
and request you to submit your papers and posters by November 20, 2023 using the attached form.

Registration Form
https://23f724fd-2437-46cc-af35-1951ff507393.usrfiles.com/ugd/23f724_fffc13845d574ed689fa87a2c8991055.pdf

Call (English)
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Call (Deutsch)
https://23f724fd-2437-46cc-af35-1951ff507393.usrfiles.com/ugd/23f724_e48a11f68f9b49079d4676146e4fda0a.pdf

Update: To all those who have voted for the Iron Age Danube Route, a big thank you! The support has been tremendous and we have come in second place. The final results can be seen here:
https://www.culturaltourism-network.eu/results-2023.html

https://culturaltourism.awardstage.com/#!/public-voting
It gives us great pleasure to announce that IADR has been chosen as a finalist of the
ECTN Awards 'Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism 2023'!!!
But, to cross the last mile we need your help!
Support the IADR and cast your vote here:
➡️➡️➡️ https://culturaltourism.awardstage.com/#!/public-voting
IADR is in the Transnational Thematic Tourism Products Category
The Winners and Runners-up by category will be announced at the Awards ceremony taht will take place in Pafos, Cyprus, on Thursday 19 October 2023, at the gala dinner of the 16th ECTN Conference.

The link for the registration:
https://forms.gle/t1MmRnKyGtYHUmxF8

International Archaeological Conference
April 26–28, 2023
14–16. Múzeum krt., Budapest 1088, Hungary
Hungarian National Museum,
Banquet Hall and Central Library

On November 3rd 2022 the Iron Age Danube Route was awarded the certificate of the cultural route of the Council of Europe. The gathers 30 members from 7 countries of the Danube region. The cultural route focuses on promotion, presentation, research and sustainable development of the Iron Age heritage of the Danube region.
The certification ceremony was held in the Dverce palace under the aegis of the City of Zagreb. The certificate to the Iron Age Danube Route was awarded by Mr. Stefano Dominioni, the director of the European Institute of Cultural Routes and the Executive Secretary of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe. The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Mrs. Nina Obuljen Koržinek, Mrs. Mrs. Laura Topolovšek, envoy of the mayor of the City of Zagreb, as well as a number of members of the diplomatic corps of the network countries, members and stakeholders from all partner countries and other distinguished guests.
The formal award ceremony of the certificate was the pinnacle of a two-day Closing Event of the international project "Virtual archaeological landscapes of the Danube region project" (acronym: Danube's archaeological eLandscapes). The project is carried out as part of the Interreg Danube Transnational program and is co-funded by the European Union through the ERDF and IPA II.

9TH TRAINING ACADEMY FOR CULTURAL ROUTES
(Fontainebleau, France, May 31- June 3, 2022)
A remarkable success at the service of Cultural Tourism in Europe …
Labeled as an official event within the framework of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the 9th Training Academy of Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe took place in Fontainebleau (France) from 31 May to 3 June 2022 under the best auspices and in the presence of Barbara ZECHES, Vice-President of the Administrative Council of the Enlarged Partial Agreement of Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe (36 Countries) and Stefano DOMINIONI, Director of the European Institute of Cultural Routes and Executive Secretary of the Enlarged Partial Agreement of these same Routes.

About a hundred participants, including the managers of 32 Cultural Routes belonging to 17 different nationalities, were able to exchange during these three days of intensive meetings their experiences and their proposals to further increase the notoriety and credibility of European cultural routes, which bring together more than 3000 sites in 60 countries.

The presence of Bruno FAVEL, Nicolas MONQUAUT and Orane PROISY from the French Ministry of Culture as well as representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Tourism, the noteworthy intervention of Thierry TERRET, Ministerial Delegate for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, that of the elected officials from the South of Paris Region and the west loops of the Seine providing their concrete and particularly appreciated testimonies, set the tone for this event which, traditionally, situates its debates in concrete action at the level of the territories.

A prestigious evening at the Château de Fontainebleau at the invitation of its Director, Marie-Christine LABOURDETTE and the awarding of the Council of Europe Literary Prize to Monique LUCENET, for her book: “Les Routes des Impressionnismes en France et en Europe”, as well as that two convivial evenings in Barbizon and Moret- sur-Loing, fortunately completed this European meeting after two years of interruption due to the Pandemic. The delegates were also able to visit the new exhibition produced and distributed by the Impressionisms Routes© network “Impressionism in France and in Europe”, presented within the walls of the Academy itself.

Pierre BEDOUELLE, President of the Impressionisms Routes© network, Georges LUCENET, Vice-President and General Manager, Christian RECOING, Vice-President and Treasurer, organizers of these meetings, in association with the Institute of Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe of Luxembourg, warmly thank the French Ministry of Culture and the elected officials, organizations and local authorities who made it possible to hold these European meetings, the conclusions of which will be officially presented at the next Advisory Forum of Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe which will be held in Chania (Crete), Greece from October 5 to 7, 2022.

The Phoenicians’ Route and the Iron Age Danube Route, two Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, signed a Collaboration Agreement aiming at safeguarding and promoting the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Euro-Mediterranean history, in order to launch joint activities and strategies for cultural and tourism enhancement favoring their respective territories.

On 25 January 2022 the two Cultural Routes certified by the Council of Europe “The Phoenicians’ Route” and the “Iron Age Danube Route” signed a relevant collaboration agreement, with the aim of promoting and disseminating the tangible and intangible cultural heritage connected to products, places, traditions, civilizations at the basis of European values.
The agreement aims at promoting opportunities exchanges between these two Cultural Routes that tell millennial stories, stimulating a new co-planning and collaboration in terms of analysis, creation of tourist products between neighboring territories while belonging to different cultural routes, as well as actions to enhance the territory, promotion of sustainable, creative and experiential tourism, both linked to local communities and to a network with a European and international scope.
The Phoenicians’ Route and the Iron Age Danube Route will work together on the development of marketing, study and analysis activities; organization of events, exhibitions, seminars, training activities, meetings involving civil society; promotion of exchanges between young people from their respective countries; collaboration for international projects; organization of joint communication actions, promotional campaigns, promotional tours and more.

The two Routes’ topics perfectly intertwine, since they deal with contemporary historical periods in different geographical areas. Furthermore, both Routes support common transnational approaches to the protection, presentation and research of archaeological landscapes and heritage. The cultures of this historic period (Iron Age in the Danube Region and the Mediterranean area) exchanged goods, ideas, knowledge and technologies, solved conflicts, migrated and interacted with other cultures beyond Europe, becoming part of a bigger European cultural phenomena. The awareness that modern states’ borders and European unity of today have emerged after millennia of interactions between the ancient civilizations is the main message that the Iron Age Danube Route and the Phoenicians’ Route seek to transmit.
For this reason, the two Routes worked on the idea of launching and developing joint initiatives.

Representatives of the Iron Age Danube Route participated in the 2022 Training Academy of Cultural Routes Certified by the Council of Europe, which will take place in Fontainebleau, France, in May 2022. The Meeting took place on January 17, 2022 and was organised by the Impressionisms Routes, in collaboration with the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Programme. Thirty-seven of the 45 certified routes attended the meeting, organised in the framework of the French Presidency of the European Union, through the French Ministry of Culture, which has made the enhancement of European cultural heritage one of its Presidency priorities.
The Training Academy will focus on three key priorities, the content of which were defined at the meeting and which will revolve around a common theme, the development of the cultural tourism.

EPA (Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe) is organising the 10th Annual Advisory Forum on Cultural Routes from 29th September to 1st October. We are pleased that the Iron Age Danube Route will be awarded its certificate in the certification ceremony.

Today (09 September 2021) our secretary Marta Rakvin will be talking about the Iron Age Danube Route on HRT Radio Sljeme radio at 6.30pm. She will present the first certified route whose headquarters is in Croatia, how it came to be and what does it involve: iron age landscapes with monumental structures such as cemeteries under tumulus, fortified settlements, oppidum and numerous archaeological artefacts. These can be found in museums and sites across the Danube region, i.e. in partner institutions from six countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Germany and Slovenia.

6. Situl Festival - a festival of Iron Age life and cuisine was held in June 2021. This year it was organized as a walk among archaeological sites. Visitors were able to see the work of various craftsmen and their products at four venues. Children were able to bake their own bread, paint their skin, make a leather bracelet and a miniature situla and compete in archery. Every hour the Kolenc family theatre prepared a play on the Main Square and on Marof, everyday life scenes of the princely couple were shown by the actors of DKD Senovo. At Kandija and Kapiteljska njiva sites, visitors were able to listen to a guided tour prepared by a curator of the Dolenjski Museum. At this year's Situla Festival, we also had guests from the Polish Diocese, who contributed to the various events. Those gathered at Marof were greeted by Kamilla Duda Kawecka, Deputy Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of Slovenia, Jasna Dokl Osolnik, Director of the Dolenjski Museum and the Mayor of the Municipality of Novo mesto, Gregor Macedoni. The holiday ended at the Dolenjski Museum with a lecture “The flourishing Hallstatt of Novo mesto” by the curator archaeologist dr. Borut Križ and a visit to the permanent archaeological exhibition “Archaeological Image of Dolenjska”.
Video Situlae Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joa0j_wAf0w&t=7s

As a newly certified cultural route of the Council of Europe, The Iron Age Danube Route Association will be presented on Wednesday 14th July 2021 at 11am. The mission and goals of the Association will be presented by the president Sanjin Mihelić (director of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb) and founding representatives from Slovenia, Petra Stipančić (Dolenjski Museum Novo mesto) and Matija Črešnar (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia).