{"id":6952,"date":"2019-06-04T06:22:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/?p=6952"},"modified":"2019-06-04T06:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:22:48","slug":"european-walk-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/uncategorized\/european-walk-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"European Walk of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bring together the heritage of World War One (WWI) around Europe<\/h2>\n

Bovec, 3 June – Partners from nine countries, including Slovenia, have pledged to set up an European Walk of Peace to bring together the heritage of World War One (WWI) around Europe.<\/p>\n

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“A European Walk of Peace is not just about remembering, it’s foremost a noble idea about the necessity of peaceful coexistence among European nations,” said Zdravko Likar, president of the Walk of Peace Foundation, which had given the idea for this pan-European project.\u00a0A charter on the partnership was signed by representatives of Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia as they attended an international conference on WWI in the Slovenian town of Bovec last week.<\/p>\n

The idea for the walk of peace was presented to the partners by the Slovenian foundation, which hosted the two-day event together with the So\u010da Valley Development Centre. At the conference The Memory of WWI: Let’s Build a Walk of Peace, the Slovenian partners hosted representatives of 16 institutions from eight European countries.\u00a0The conference was an opportunity to present the results of and experiences with events commemorating the centenary of the end of WWI, and to discuss future cooperation.\u00a0It was also an opportunity for the foundation and its Italian partner Promoturismo FVG to present the project The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic.\u00a0It is a network of more than 200 kilometres of mountain paths leading from the Slovenian village of Log pod Mangartom to the Italian coastal town of Duino.<\/p>\n

It takes hikers along a number of sites where the Isonzo Front, one of the bloodiest mountain theatres of war in history, took place.\u00a0In 2016, it was put on UNESCO’s tentative list of world heritage.\u00a0To upgrade all cross-border initiatives between Slovenia and Italy, the WalkofPeace was launched as part of the EU’s Interreg Italy – Slovenia 2014-2020, the conference heard.<\/p>\n

Ma\u0161a Klavora from the foundation noted the new project will enable completing the Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic<\/a>, turning it into the first full-fledged long-distance walk of peace.\u00a0Locations outside the area of the Isonzo Front will also be included in the WWI heritage, a data base of the soldiers killed on the Isonzo Front will be completed, some investments made and exhibitions put up, she said.<\/p>\n

The Bovec conference was part of activities within the Networld project, which is designed to raise awareness about WWI in the Danube region.<\/p>\n

So\u010da Valley<\/a><\/p>\n

World War I in So\u010da Valley<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: STA<\/p>\n

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