A year earlier (1989) the Circle had emerged from Peter's fertile imagination and with his enthusiasm tempered by his friends John Beynon, John Tipton and Bob Storey it gained support from the Wales Tourist Board and the European Commission as part of the European Year of Tourism’. This Appreciation is also available as a .pdf
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Hellevoetsluis, Holland was a fortified naval port, and is now re-envisioned as the distinctive residential and commercial centre of a new town in the Netherlands.
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Dubrovnik takes "this opportunity to kindly invite you to
participate in our process of cultural transformation and co-create ideas of a
future Dubrovnik." Following Valletta's successful bid for 2018, Dubrovnik represents different and important features that will make it a great and truly European Capital of Culture in 2020. "The concept of Dubrovnik's candidature is “City in the Making''. The concept builds on the dynamic principles of co-creation, mediation of dialogue, and ExChange (change through exchange). Accordingly, Dubrovnik's candidature is based on four thematic pillars: reclaiming public space, releasing creative energy, redefining identity, and reconnecting Dubrovnik with Europe and the World." See letter from the city for more deatils of bid and also my brief walled town description.
Matthias Ripp from Regensburg opens discussion of World Heritage Cities with his valuable model of an annual network report; I've also just discovered Grayson Perry's (Turner Prize winner) amazing walled city metaphor self 'portrait' called Map of Days newly acquired by Bath's Victoria Art Gallery thanks to their Friends and the ArtFund. You really need to see the original to find your way round the streets, rivers and features, named for his personality traits but you may be able to make out some on the bigger version below. His inspired re-imagination of the walled town for the 21st Century suggests the basis for a 'walled towns in art and culture' exhibition at a future Symposium perhaps at the World Heritage City of Valletta or even the Lowry inspiring Berwick-upon Tweed. |
| European Walled Towns members |
25 Years on from Peter Osborne's creation of the Walled Towns Friendship Circle, Tenby has celebrated the founders of the WTFC, now EWT with a ceramic plaque of the Piran Declaration in English and Welsh placed on the Town Walls.
Beautiful and historic Chichester with its Roman based walls and attractive city centre, is hosting the European Walled Towns Symposium this year. You can register here now. The programme will include valuable technical and cultural contributions and discussions including talks on the recent project which Chichester undertook on its walls, a presentation and workshop on European Projects and European Funding as well as a talk and discussion on transport in walled towns. Furthermore, there will be a visit to Portsmouth Naval Dockyard to see historic ships and a guided tour of the Rolls Royce car factory.
In 2012, Margaret and Bernard Shaw took Berwick-on-Tweed to the very edge of Russia. In Narva, Estonia they compared the two walled border towns. Their paper, which was published by Narva will be linked here when I can get an electronic version. Here is the presentation that they gave in Narva with its extensive illustrations.
The Bridges make the town - the fortifications keep both safe.
More about the Royal Border bridge is linked here.
How to travel the Scottish Border in the United Kingdom from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Carlisle: follow link for details |
| via Bewcastle Cross |
