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Chantal PRADINES – Executive director of ALLÉES-AVENUES /allées d’avenir/
International symposium “The essential beauty of tree avenues”
Carcassonne (France) 19-21 November 2023
Organized by ALLÉES-AVENUES /allées d’avenir/ and the County council of Aude
more on https://allees-avenues.eu/en/
So the idea is uh we identified a number of uh uh ways and finally I mean where are they um would an interactive card help us with the tourism so I identified a few things a few things existing already and to Foster reflection this is because this is one of the
Elements we’re going to u to to to develop tomorrow regarding this touristic itineraries knowing that well in fact no no no we’ll speak about touristic itineraries later well this is a map is a check map okay I’m not going to go into details it’s a general map and every year anyway there’s a
Competition of the Avenue in Germany but also photograph competition uh organized by Anika so if we look at this picture we have this kind of elements for each Avenue willing to compete for the priz so there are many circuits pedestrial circuits cycling circuits etc etc with information on the
Avenue the kind of trees number of trees Etc the possibility also to have the geographic location uh to look at pictures like them dislike them have a a View General view now many tools existing so that the landscape is well documented now this is something else which has been uh done by um Marina Sala who is the prize winner I can’t remember but it was um regarding a competition on the veride pce landscape but then she developed a Wiki
Avenue Wiki allei called and uh where we wanted to improve um this um section and for the time being for the time being this site is only contains Google pictures but we wanted some indications on the length on the type of trees species uh so um we would need to
Work and to ask for an IT engineer to try and develop the site this is the kind of um application form you have to feel I don’t really know who manages this uh form must be quite a few people involved in that but anyway another map existing which is a German
Map from the University well documented map with tree Avenues and here we can see from the rugan island on little squares with the typology touristic elements with touristic elements and also heritage element architectural elements well documented in this respect and also specifically uh three Avenues then uh we can see
Pictures with various data regarding this Heritage then we spoke with um P showed us the do alen with these T istic Avenues Crossing Germany from the oran Island to the Northeast to the conson lake with the roads Meandering and uh it interesting to see with what we
Going to listen to tomorrow Sonia dman more specifically so this touristic itinery uh which was developed after reunification when there were trees um which were filed in the former um Democratic German Republic and so uh with the the automobile club committed itself whereas in the 60s they were favorable for tree felling
This time they committed themselves to protect and preserve the trees and so they committed themselves to develop touristic circuit and it was a way to bring together East and West so three Avenue in uh as cohesion means so there possibility also to visit the various roads so here this is an excerpt of
Another touristic Avenue in Germany more in the western part of the country or Northern valian which preserved quite a few tree Avenues we also have a cartography and I think that was it so that was just to um have a review I mean to go through various tools existing tools which are
Quite uh interesting and uh each one develops its um sites or websites with its own means and maybe one day we should reflect on uh the way of having a common tools which would connect us from the various countries so I think that we have to work at
It and the way we should manage this aspect so I think we can move on to the second presentation now so this is more to speak about touristic tinies and European cultural touristic tinies and to speak about cohesion as well uh though our way of traveling changes for long distances when we
Practice tourism then sometimes I mean we use the ways and Roads there’s no tourism without Journeys and there’s one day I mean and at a specific time then we have to use the the road or the ways or whatever uh so the notion of touristic roads is something which is quite
Obvious the very first touristic etin with the automobile Were were panoramic circuits and then uh in the 1935 things changed and then uh we we reached these thematic uh roads and then this stopped in the 50s at least in France and so the three Avenues is uh touristic Tiner which in itself doesn’t need any specific topic
Because it is in itself a kind of touristic artifact it is a monument as we saw yesterday kind of Cathedral so there’s a matter and I think elod Will Tell Us her opinion and say whether she thinks that it is a nonsense Ida or or uh an idea which will
Progress in the future now the touristic attraction but then we can add up to this and we can add to this we can add to this touristic area the cultural etiny European cultural itinary and this is something uh which is supported by the Council of Europe which in
Fact with the same objectives just like the European Convention of the landscape and all the tools supported by the Council of Europe the objective is to um to to adopt the values of the Council of Europe uh we have the convention of GAD which is the convention of of the
Council of Europe then the idea is to preserve the uh landscape also preserve nature and and the Pearl convention and also the promotion of Tourism with the economic activity and this is in relation with the European Commission because um links and bonds have been developed over years and this is one of
The competence of the Council of Europe now the form of these itineries and cultural European cultural itineraries are not necessarily continuous ceries but Networks covering a maximum of the European continent or parts of the continent Gathering various cural sites which are very important and among these continuous itineries are St James
Itineries which are the first European cultural itineries or sometimes also um itineries like cemeteries um important cemeteries and then to be acknowledge European cultural itineraries we need a concept which is consistent we need um an efficient Network able to which would be recognized um with the diversity of the
Partners so political Partners but NOS also and youth organizations because we always are in this dimension of the European cohesion democracy um human rights values all these keywords are should be involved and the topic should also be interesting uh there is an disciplinary scientific committee which will be in charge of the
Content and then also a spokesperson who would be um with a binding contract with a legal status also marketing program communication program and in order to be able to present and be acknowledged and also the interest is to be able to be more visible to be and and and so that we
Would be able to look for um funding uh the Council of Eur doesn’t support financially but they help and they assist you in order to look for funding possibilities and so um here is um a list of uh aspects to develop cultural itinery develop the elements of the Heritage and the portions of
Itineries enhance this uh Crossing with possible touristic uh with Al and we have the touristic and also touristic of the order Department um then um we can identify various points the ramp parts for example from these Avenues or cemeteries um Avenues or Channel um so it’s we could have various
Themes also being identified all along these itineraries we could create also a European Network because we are we have common actions we have a kind of common visibility also so the idea is really to encourage the notion of cooperation stimulate scientific and social debate Community debate all so uh
And the fields where the eies should be involved in terms of cooperation in research and development iations of memory history uh sort of uh educational uh sharing and information with the young European young uh population contemporary culture also artistic practices Etc so here is a small map with various
Dots being connected with the itineraries and there’s a guidance on cultural itineraries plenty of tools actually if you go on the cultural itineraries um on on internet I identified some interesting uh ites so regarding the European tinies of historic Gardens I uh just communicated through Linkedin regarding the Symposium
10 days ago so um uh it was I mean during a weekend I just had a contact and got in touch with the person managing the European iny of the historic Gardens who said we are very much interested if you do something and and so and regarding your Symposium then
We would also uh give us uh give your logo unfortunately I mean uh things were already in uh in the printing stag so we didn’t manage to in include this logo and there also a project of the planting trees uh between the Poland and Germany
So P was already um got in touch and I didn’t have time to get in touch and but we have also the cemetery uh Road and Cemetery um Agy the um European itineraries of the spa cities historical Spa cities also or then Napoleon destination so when we speak about three Avenues abroad
I mean you would do you would organize these the same Symposium in the Czech Republic in Germany as a French they would come and see you and they would say oh Napoleon and so what is rather funny I mean Napoleon is also mentioned in Sweden nothing to do with Sweden but
Except to that there was a meeting which there’s something missed where napon is involved anyway I mean Sweden we also speak about Napoleon but also now the impression impressionism ittin is with um Impressionists artists are painting tree Avenues okay the these were sort of bits and pieces regarding what it
Was regarding these uh European cultural Roots between tourism and European cohesion thank you thank you Sh