After  30 months of cooperation our project „Baltic Culture and Tourism Route Fortresses" - Baltic Fort Route - closes with very good results.  

14 fortresses und 5 universities developed a new quality of transnational cooperation and designed a tourist product, which sustainably promotes constructional, cultural, infrastructural and touristic development of fortresses. By project partner's active participation in BFR an important contribution to the conservation of fortresses as a European cultural heritage and to the European integration could be made. 

We would like to announce that last Saturday 1st September 2007 in Kostrzyn nad Odrą during the Fortress Days took place the ceremony of opening of Traveling Exhibition.

The ceremonial opening of Traveling Exhibition was conducted by dr. Andrzej Kunt - the Mayor of the City of Kostrzyn nad Odrą and Mr Hartmut Roeder – coordinator of the Baltic Fort Route Project.

The Conference and Seminar "Appropriate Utilization of Fortresses"

The Conference and Seminar II of the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Chair of Preservation of historical monuments, Studiengang “European Cultural Heritage” and the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Festungsforschung e.V. in the context of Baltic Sea Region INTERREG III B Neighbourhood Program

on June 5 and 6 2007

at Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin 

Fortresses are cultural heritage of a united Europe. By losing their original military significance, many fortifications were gradually removed or opened to the public. To this day many urban development measures and regional influences can partly be deduced from their condition.

The International Scientific Conference
"Research, protection, reconstruction and rehabilitation of fortresses"

Cities and Fortifications - Contemplations after the Conference by Ingrida Veliute

One early morning in March in the central building of the Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) started not the way it usually does: there were greetings in English, German, Polish, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Danish, Hungarian, and other languages. On 21-23 March, the VMU Military History Centre, together with Kaunas City Municipality and the Institute of Architecture and Construction of Kaunas University of Technology organized a long-planned international scientific conference entitled "Research, Protection, Reconstruction, and Rehabilitation of Fortresses."

The International Scientific Conference
"Research, protection, reconstruction and rehabilitation of fortresses"

В Европе не надо никому объяснять, зачем нужно сохранять старинные форты. Крепости и форты - это часть европейской культуры. Они стоят на границах Бельгии, Франции, Германии, Польши, Австрии, Голландии и многих других стран. Миллионы туристов посещают замки, крепости и форты, которые когда-то были оплотом силы и мощи королей. Бюджеты тысяч самоуправлений формируются за счет туризма бывших военных объектов. Есть люди, которые изучают историю крепостей и фортов, работают в музеях и университетах, разыскивают новые факты и старые укрепления, заботятся о сохранении окружающей природы. Такие люди встретились 20 - 23 марта 2007 года в Каунасе, где прошла очередная научная конференция Европейской организации Baltic Fort Route.

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