DANUrB+ DANube Urban Brand + Building Regional and Local Resilience through the Valorization of Danube’s Cultural Heritage

The DANUrB Platform has been reactivated and is ready to enrich its content with good new practices of cultural and historical heritage in the Danube regions. This became evident at the 3rd partner meeting, which took place on February 26, 2021....

During the Christmas Day, younger children usually go from house door to house door and people give them presents (candies, nuts, fruits, money ...). The population of this area calls them "koljindeci" or “koledari”. According to the older...

In Bulgaria, Christmas is celebrated on December 25th. Carol singers leave early in the morning to go round the houses as they sing songs and call for health, fertility, and prosperity. Back in time and nowadays, in the region of Vidin, the...

Soon after Christmas midnight young men, soon married or single, come walking the streets of Milkovitsa, singing. Thus, begins the annual ancient caroling custom. Local women passionately collect and preserve local traditions. About 7 km from...

In addition to the timeless traditions on Christmas Eve (the night before Christmas) to serve an odd number of only lean meals, Carolers singing their traditional songs all through the houses, perform the whole ritual of lighting and...

In Tulcea, Christmas is a lot more than just decorating the Christmas tree and offering gifts. This Christian holiday is filled with beautiful celebrations, traditions, and superstitions. On Christmas Eve, December 24th, groups of children...

The town of Calafat has been shaped and developed over time in an excellent natural geographical setting, determined by the presence of the waters of the old Danube, on whose left bank is located the settlement. Calafatul, the city of roses,...

In Giurgiu County, the population managed to transmit from generation to generation customs and traditions specific to the southern Vlășcene folk area. The traditions and customs with religious substratum that circulated in the past and were...

In the villages of Slavonia (Eastern Croatia), we can still find some old traditions related to Christmas celebration. For example, on the day of the Christmas Eve, the man of the family should take care of the livestock and feed them abundantly,...

The Christmas supper varies between regions and families. In general, it has lots of courses including a fish dish, a potato salad (with mayonnaise, pickles and carrots) and a sauerkraut soup – kapustnica, with sausage, meat, dried mushrooms and...

Christmas is all around. It is the most wonderful time of the year, the time of miracles, magic, hope, solidarity, and kindness. Each nation brings in this magic its own color, aroma and bells ringing with its unique customs and traditions....

The second DANUrB+ Online Partner Meeting was held on November 27, 2020 organised by the project Lead Partner – Budapest University of Technology and Economics.    Good cultural heritage practices, Atlas of DANUrB+ Towns, Stakeholders...

DANUrB+ Communication Workshop was organized online by National Tourism Cluster “Bulgarian Guide”, Work Package Communication Leader, on November 17, 2020. Main DANUrB+ Messages and target groups were presented, as well as specific parts of the...

DANUrB is happy to be part of the REACH community! A Horizon2020 project, REACH is RE-designing Access to Cultural Heritage. The project collected contributions from innovative and interesting Cultural Heritage projects that involve...

  DANURB+ AT ROCK OPEN KNOWLEDGE WEEK   DANUrB+ participated in the ROCK Open Knowledge...

An online workshop on methodology for researching morphology and local values organized online by the DANUrB+ partner Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urban Planning of Bucharest on October 27, 2020. The workshop is the first one as...

The DANUrB+ partnership consists of 19 partners (17 ERDF and 2 IPA) and 23 associated strategic partners from 6 countries: Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia. 10 consortium partners were already part of the DANUrB...

The kick-off event and first partner meeting of the interregional DANUrB+ project, co-financed by the Interreg Danube Transnational Program 2014-2020, took place online via Microsoft Teams on September 25 and 26, 2020 with participants from...

Changing minds, increasing awareness of the local and cross-cultural values, working on quality, and uniting stakeholders and local communities. DANube Urban Brand+ is about that. The project aims at the creation of a DANUrB+ Quality Label,...

The DANUrB+ project funded by the Interreg Danube Transnational Programme was launched on 1st July 2020 to foster resilient use of cultural heritage and resources of the peripheral and border regions along the Danube. In 30 months, it...