“Cultural Route of the Council of Europe” certified in 2010

 

Throughout history, cemeteries have been an essential part of our civilisation. These sacred and emotional spaces are concomitantly time witnesses of local history for cities and towns. They are common to all cities and towns in Europe and they clearly reveal their cultural and religious identity. It is therefore important to see cemeteries as places of life!

 

Heritage

Cemeteries are part of our tangible heritage, for their works, sculptures, engravings, and even for their urban planning. Cemeteries are also part of our intangible heritage, our anthropological reality, providing a framework surrounding the habits and practices related to death. Indeed, cemeteries offer unique settings for part of our historical memories. They are reminders of periods of local history that communities do not want to, and should not, forget, places which we have a duty to preserve and transmit to future generations.

 

Travelling today

The European Cemeteries Route offers the visitors the possibility to literally walk through the local history, to learn about important personalities who have worked and left their mark in cities. Traveling through this route actually enables visitors to discover the local, national and European Cultural Heritage at rest in cemeteries. It helps to raise European citizens' awareness of the importance of Europe's significant cemeteries in their multicultural dimension.

Council of Europe values

Memories and symbols written in the stones of cemeteries are a reflection of customs, values and life in the city. By visiting a cemetery, one can get a feeling of how diverse the life and culture of the surrounding area is, and also better understand how important this diversity is in a democratic world.

 

Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe, ASCE
Route Headquarters
c/o Comune di Bologna - Biblioteca del Museo Civico del Risorgimento
Via dei Musei, 8
IT-40124 Bologna (ITALY)

Presidency
c/o Pogrebno podjetje Maribor d.d.
Cesta XIV. divizije 39/a
SI-2000 Maribor (SLOVENIA)
Tel: +386 2 480 09 00
admin@significantcemeteries.org

Lidija PLIBERŠEK, President
Dusan VRBAN, Project Manager

Official website
www.cemeteriesroute.eu

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