Each year, the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Programme sees a growing number of network members. Particularly, the first half of 2019 saw a remarkable development in that figure, with 170 new members engaging in Route networks and thus in the Programme.

Such a growth involved almost every certified Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe with some of them welcoming over a dozen new members.

New network members per Cultural Route

This increase concerned 33 countries, both member (22), observer (2) and non-member States (9) of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe (EPA), in a pan-European scenario involving Council of Europe member States and non-member States (such as Belarus, Tunisia, Lebanon).

New network members per country

38 Cultural Routes are today an integral part of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Programme. These either linear, territorial or reticular routes cross more than 50 countries in Europe and beyond. Each Cultural Route is a grass-roots network composed of different destinations, organised by a legal association established along the network and federating a minimum of 3 countries linked by the same theme, whose members (cities, local authorities, regions, cultural institutions, SMEs) jointly implement activities along the Route while mutually increasing their visibility among the general public.

For full details concerning the individual network members by country of all the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, please visit online Cultural Routes Mapping.