The European Landscape Convention

As a reflection of European identity and diversity, the landscape is our living natural and cultural heritage, be it ordinary or outstanding, urban or rural, on land or in water.

 

The European Landscape Convention - also known as the Florence Convention, - promotes the protection, management and planning of European landscapes and organises European co-operation on landscape issues. The convention was adopted on 20 October 2000 in Florence (Italy) and came into force on 1 March 2004 (Council of Europe Treaty Series no. 176). It is open for signature by member states of the Council of Europe and for accession by the European Community and European non-member states. It is the first international treaty to be exclusively concerned with all dimensions of European landscape. (more...)

 

About the Convention


Text of the Convention | Linguistic versions

 Explanatory report

Parties to the Convention

Guidelines for the implementation of the Convention | Linguistic versions

 

Documentation


Reference texts of the Council of Europe about landscape
Publications of the Council of Europe

Convention leaflet

Naturopa/Futuropa magazines

 

Meetings of the Convention


Conferences

Workshops

National seminars

Working groups

 

Landscape Award


Rules of the Landscape Award of the Council of Europe | Linguistic versions

Award sessions 2009

 

National actions


National implementation

Compendium of national data

 


Logo designed and offered to the Council of Europe by Alberto Floridi, Italian Architect, 2006
 

News

8th meeting of the workshops, Malmö/Alnarp (Sweden), 8-9 October 2009


Calendar 2009

 

Restricted access

Steering Committee for Heritage and Landscape (CDPATEP)

 

Related activities

Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for regional/spatial planning (CEMAT)
 

Contacts

Council of Europe