EUROPEAN WALLED TOWNS - NEW WEBSITE

www.europeanwalledtowns.org is the new website for European Walled Towns.

www.europeanwalledtowns.org

30th Sept - 3rd Oct EWT Seminar and AGM in Ravenna

See Walled Towns Events.
Ravenna is itself walled but famed principally as the World Heritage City of Byzantine Imperial power in Italy
with churches and stunning mosaics to show off.

Narva-Ivangorod nightingales

Visiting deepest Bulgaria - 30 kilometres East of Veliko Tarnovo, have been listening out for a nightingale

and I'm reminded of the EWT Exec, hosted so brilliantly by Narva and including a visit to the Russian fortress across the river - Ivangorod. There we were greeted by the most aggressive chorus of nightingales, one of which I captured on camera and sound

Useful Report from Ireland

Irish Walled Towns Network has circulated report from a seminar day in Carrick-on-Suir:
http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Irish_Walled_Towns/Solving_our_own_problems_final_report.pdf Well worth downloading and reading for any walled town.

Virtual 47th Executive Meeting

Please see events page

Edinburgh city with lost walls

wikicommons picture of Flodden Wall,

DMB copy of Braun and Hogenburg

'Scotsmen' article on its website "Lost Edinburgh", spotted by Mark Lusby. Braun and Hogenburg's 16th Century Urban Atlas shows Edinburgh, somewhat imaginatively but well walled with fine citizens of 'Scotiae Metropolis'

Ceuta - English version of Frederico Mendes Paula posted in European Walled Towns (Facebook)

Excellent post on history of Walled city and enclave of Ceuta on North Coast of Africa but as Portuguese is not a language I can read easily I have used automated translation into English to produce a .pdf version which I am making available here.
Please visit the original website to pursue matters further: https://historiasdeportugalemarrocos.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/fortificacoes-portuguesas-de-ceuta

EWT website

Some movement now. See http://www.walledtowns.com
but check provenance of posts.

Dubrovnik - worthy candidate for European Capital of Culture 2020

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.

1990s EWT walled towns European project report

Newly digitised 1993 EWT walled towns European project report is now available as part of theTime line of EWT/WTFC.