11 Facts About Europa Nostra

Europa Nostra is a pan-European Federation for Cultural Heritage, representing citizens' organisations that work on safeguarding Europe's cultural and natural heritage.

Europa Nostra's network covers almost 50 countries across Europe and beyond.

Europa Nostra seeks to highlight the importance of cultural heritage as a building block of European identity and as contributing to a strengthening sense of European citizenship.

Europa Nostra was founded in 1963 on the initiative of Italia Nostra, as a response to the serious threat to the survival of Venice, caused by regular flooding.

Europa Nostra seeks to highlight the importance and the specific character of cultural heritage within the wider cultural and policy agenda of its international partners, the European Union, Council of Europe, and UNESCO.

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In March 2010, Europa Nostra opened a liaison office in Brussels, whose task is to coordinate Europa Nostra's lobbying of EU institutions and other European and international bodies based in Brussels, Strasbourg and Paris.

In recent years, Europa Nostra has raised its voice to save endangered historic monuments, sites or landscapes in Europe, including:.

Europa Nostra serves as a platform for exchange for those concerned with heritage conservation, education, research, communication and interpretation.

Europa Nostra is a partner of Wiki Loves Monuments, the Wikipedia photo contest around cultural heritage.

Europa Nostra publishes an annual magazine restyled in 2010 with the name "Heritage in Motion".

Europa Nostra is a non-profit organisation, which is financially supported by membership fees and donations, by the European Commission and other public bodies and private supporters and sponsors.