Cultural activities

The Cévennes association is already 30 years old, which was set up in 1994 to bring together those involved in tourism in the vicinity of the route followed by R.L. Stevenson in 1878 (whose account was published under the title “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes”).

Over the last thirty years, in addition to a signposted route (GR 70), many cultural initiatives have been launched, bringing together travellers and locals alike. The experience of working in a network has led the association to turn to other associations around Stevenson .

From 25 to 27 September 2024, the Council of Europe’s Annual Consultative Forum on Cultural Routes was held in Visegrád, Hungary.

Stevenson’s ‘Travels in the Cevennes with a donkey has recently been published in paperback (Livres de Poche) with a new translation by Jean-Pierre Naugrette whose passionate introduction to the new translation entices the reader to rediscover this work. Well known connaisseur of Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean-Pierre Naugrette has translated several of Stevenson’s works: The Master […]

The 11th Cultural Routes Training Academy was held in Brindisi, Italy, from 4 to 7 June 2024, on the theme of “European cooperation and sustainable development”. The meeting brought together representatives of the 47 European cultural routes, including Martin White, President of the European network In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson. In a marvelous […]

The theme of the 2024 international academic conference was “Stevenson intertextual”. This subject was addressed in a number of different ways. Martin White, President of the European network In the Footsteps of R.L. Stevenson, presented “Les écrivains voyageurs décodés”. These are three travel writers who all experienced Edinburgh in the 1870s, but in very different […]

This year the Long John Silver Trust have introduced the Pirates and Prejudice route. The route  is based on the Trust’s Treasure Island Trail and prioritises Bristol’s literary and maritime connections in line with the Trust’s raison d’être. The route also focuses upon the Trust’s membership of the European Cultural Route “In the Footsteps of […]

Contributor: Stefano Dominioni, Council of Europe Director, European Institute of Cultural Routes. Rosa Balas, Director General of External Action of the Regional Government of Extremadura and President of the Executive Committee of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, has announced that the jury of the Carlos V European Award has decided to award […]