This annual publication includes descriptions, jury citations, and contact details on the winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards. In 2016, 28 laureates were selected.
In 2016, 28 laureates were selected. Among these outstanding initiatives, the Awards magazine includes the renovation of a suspended walkway built on the steep sides of a gorge, opening up an area of phenomenal natural beauty to all visitors, thus attracting a new wave of tourism to the region (Spain). It also showcases the development of an industrial-style digitisation which resulted in the digitisation of nearly 9 million zoological, botanical and geological specimens, from across Europe and beyond, of tremendous value to researchers everywhere (the Netherlands).
The efforts of the employees of a national museum who worked hard and without pay for three years in order to keep a museum in Bosnia and Herzegovina active in a difficult political situation are also highlighted in this Awards edition. In addition, we can also find an awareness-raising project which encourages citizens to ‘adopt’ monuments of cultural and historic significance in their communities, to care for them and to put them back into use (Finland).
In 2016, for the first time a European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award was presented to an exceptional project from Iceland: the rehabilitation and conversion of the French Hospital in Faskrudsfjordur into a museum.
The projects chosen by the juries are excellent examples of creativity, innovation, sustainable development, and social participation in the heritage field throughout Europe.
