Amber gave name to the most important North-South connection of Central Europe. The ancient trade route coalesces countries and nations between the Baltic and the Mediterrenean Sea, and travelling along Amber Road is discovering European history and culture. Museums, archaeological sites, monumental castles, splendid palaces and historic cities are linked through this route. From St. Petersburg, capital of the Russian Tsars, to the outskirts of Venice, the Amber Road connects some of the most attractive tourism destinations of Europe.
A great diversity of thematic categories can be found along the Amber Road - UNESCO heritage sites, magnificent palaces as well as archeological parks.
INTERREG III B ROME
Currently, strategies and pilot activities around the Amber Road are being developed within the INTERREG III B Project R.O.M.E. together with partners from Italy (Umbria and Marche Region, Tecnopolis Bari), Greece (Region Macedonia-Thrace and Municipality of Patras) and Austria (Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy and Labour, Eco Plus Lower Austrian Regional Development Agency and Archeological Park Carnuntum). Part of our activities was to make contact with possible partners, municipalities and offers as well as with regional and national tourism organisations in all Amber Road countries.
One of the outputs of the INTERREG III B Project was a cultural-tourism database which was published on the new Amber Road Portal
European Amber Road Cooperation
The Amber Road Portal is a first step towards a sustainable cooperation along Europe´s most important North-South-connection. We want to invite regions, cultural and tourism initiatives and sites as well as municipalities, museums and archaeological parks to develop ideas with us for a closer cooperation and to participate within a transnational project in 2007. Our aim will be the reactavition of the Amber Road as touristic corridor between St. Petersburg and Venice and to invite visitors to discover its treasures.
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