Culture, Heritage and Diversity


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


Presentation

Text of the Convention | Linguistic versions

 Explanatory report | Linguistic versions

Guidelines for the implementation of the Convention | Linguistic versions

Parties to the Convention

 

Documentation


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

Convention leaflet

Naturopa/Futuropa magazines

Landscape and Heritage: Award Ceremony Programme (Strasbourg 3 December 2012) | International heritage photographic experience website

 

Meetings of the Convention


Conferences

Workshops

National seminars

Working groups

Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the European Landscape Convention (Florence, 19-20 October 2010)

 

Landscape Award


Award sessions

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

 

National actions


Compendium of national data

National implementation


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

News

7th Conference of Member States of the Council of Europe on the European Landscape Convention (Strasbourg, 26-27 March 2013): Report + Addendum


Calendar 2013

 

CDCPP

Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape website

 

Related activities

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

Contacts

Council of Europe