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The European Garden Heritage Network - EGHNJoin the 16 Partners in 5 CountriesThroughout Europe's regions, there are many parks and gardens: some are internationally renowned for their historical value, others have a more regional significance. Some fascinate with their exceptional plant collections, others with their overall design or through the lives of their owners or those who have worked in and created them. From French Baroque and English landscape to new forms of contemporary garden design, Northwest Europe is particularly rich in its diversity of gardens and garden styles. The list of outstanding gardens, from Versailles to Hestercombe, from Het Loo to the Landschaftspark Duisburg- Nord is long and well known among professionals and garden lovers alike. The aim of the European Garden Heritage Network (EGHN) is to highlight the significant contributions these, as well as lesser known parks and gardens, have made to their regions and regional identity. It brought together garden experts, government services, foundations and tourism agencies into a network dedicated to promoting gardens as valuable regional resources. Through international cooperation, measures were developed and implemented which improved the basic conditions for the preservation and further development of parks and gardens. In 2003, eleven partners from Germany, England and France joined to form the EGHN. Together, they are working to improve the way they market their park and garden landscapes and to inspire greater interest in them. In close consultation with each other, they have introduced innovative measures and projects, signalling their intention to change the way we think about parks and gardens and the part they can play in the sustainable development of their regions. A model process! What the EGHN partners have experienced and achieved in the network’s first few years is described in this report. You can find out about the nine garden routes now developed in five European regions. You can read about how, despite language barriers and different cultural attitudes, the partners developed and implemented common information and marketing strategies, as well as educational concepts, and you will receive an insight into our thinking and future plans. Financially supported through the European INTERREG-IIIB programme, the parks and gardens in the five regions have developed further after just a short time thanks to the EGHN. See for yourself: follow the EGHN through its first successful years and when you are finished reading we invite you to join us - as part of a strong network and garden community. First contact can be made by: feedback@eghn.org . |
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