Europe
The Via Francigena (Pilgrim Routes)
Cultural Routes
- Architecture without Frontiers: Rural Habitat
- Parks and Gardens, landscape
- Saint Martin de Tours: a great European figure, a Symbol of sharing
- The Cluniac Sites in Europe (Monastic influence)
- The Hansa
- The Iron Route in The Pyrenees (Industrial Heritage in Europe)
- The Jewish Heritage Routes
- The Legacy of Al-Andalus
- The Mozart Route (Historical and Legendary Figures of Europe)
- The Route of the Castilian Language and its Expansion in the Mediterranean (The Sephardic Routes)
- The Routes of the Olive Tree
- The Santiago De Compostela Pilgrim Routes
- The Schickhardt Route (Historical and Legendary Figures of Europe)
- The Via Francigena (Pilgrim Routes)
- The Via Regia
- The Viking Routes (Vikings and Normans)
- The Wenzel and Vauban Routes (Military Architecture in Europe)
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The theme was integrated into the Council of Europe programme in June 1994 and the route is awarded certification as a “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe” on 9 December 2004.
The Via Francigena follows the path taken by Sigeric, Archbishop of Canterbury, who traveled to Rome in 990 to meet Pope John XV and receive the investiture pallium.
The seventy-nine stages recorded in the Archbishop’s succinct diary of his journey have made it possible to retrace the key stops on this, the shortest route between the North Sea and Rome, which first became known as the “Via Francigena” in 876.
The various regions, provinces and towns along the Via Francigena have decided to join forces with a view to enhancing the cultural and natural heritage and they created the European Association of Via Francigena.
European Institute of Cultural Routes
Information source: The Council of Europe Cultural Routes brochure, 2004
Photo: The Via Francigena close to Montefiascone; © AEVF