MED-Routes: Enhancing MED sustainable cultural tourism through the creation of eco-itineraries within European Cultural Routes. We are delighted to announce that the project “MED-Routes - Enhancing MED sustainable cultural tourism through the creation of eco-itineraries within European Cultural Routes”, of which Destination Napoleon is an associate partner, has been officially approved.
On 2 December 2023, the town of Monza joined the European Federation of Napoleonic Cities at the Villa Reale in Monza, Italy. December 2 is a date that is repeated many times in the history and life of Napoleon: on December 2 1804, Napoleon and Josephine
On 1 December 2023, in the First Hall of the Tapestries at Palazzo Reale, an institutional meeting was held to mark the accession of Palazzo Reale in Milan, Italy, to the European Federation of Napoleonic Cities, which will join our European network at the beginning of 2024. The meeting took place in the presence of Tommaso
From 2 December 2023 to 20 January 2024 at the Théâtre de Nesle in Paris, France. Written and directed by Nathalie Ganem, the play highlights France's and the French people's missed rendezvous with Napoleon Bonaparte and his destiny. On 21 June 1815, after his defeat at Waterloo, the Emperor returned to France.
Play: "Rendez-vous à l'Élysée" (Rendezvous at the Élysée Palace) Read More »
The exhibition on General Thévenet will run from 24 November 2023 to 16 December 2023 at the Maison de la Mémoire in Coudekerque-Branche, France. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of General Thévenet, the town of Coudekerque-Branche has organised an exhibition on this historic figure, who was mayor of the town from 1826 to 1827.
The second illustration competition organised by Fábrica das Histórias - Casa Jaime Umbelino in partnership with the Rota Histórica das Linhas de Torres. The Fábrica das Histórias - Casa Jaime Umbelino (FH-CJU), the cultural centre of Torres Vedras Town Council, in partnership with the Rota Histórica das Linhas de Torres, presents the second edition of the
Torres Vedras: illustration competition on the theme of the Resistance Read More »
Find out about the previews and initiatives organised by our members to mark the release of Ridley Scott's film Napoleon. To coincide with the release of Ridley Scott's Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix in the title role and Vanessa Kirby as Joséphine de Beauharnais, our member cities organised screenings of the film.
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The Battle of Hanau took place 210 years ago, in what is now the Lambboy-Tümpelgarten district: on 30 and 31 October 1813, the French emperor Napoleon won his last victory on German soil. This is why the name "Hanau" also appears on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Around 15,000 soldiers died on
The UNWTO declared Slunj the World's Best Tourist Villages on 19 October 2023 at its General Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has included Slunj in the list of the world's best tourist villages as an exceptional rural tourist destination with recognised cultural and natural assets, a commitment to