Liberation Route Europe is een transnationaal gedenkteken. Een Hiking en Biking route die herdenkingsplekken en verhalen uit heel Europa met elkaar verbindt. Ons initiatief staat vermeld op bladzijde 46 van het Fletcher Hotels – Liberation Route Europe Tourbook 2024. Scroll naar beneden om deze te downloaden. Neem ook eens een kijkje op https://www.liberationroute.com/nl/themed-routes
De Liberation Route Europe is de route die de geallieerden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog volgden tijdens de bevrijding van Europa. De route loopt van Normandië via Nijmegen en Arnhem over de Zuid-Veluwe richting Berlijn. De route werd in 2019 erkend als Europese Culturele Route van de Raad van Europa.[1]
In 2008 werd in Nederland begonnen met het zichtbaar maken van een deel van de Liberation Route Europe aan de hand van zogeheten ‘luisterkeien’. Het uitzetten van deze route begon in Gelderland en later kwamen er locaties in Noord-Brabant[2], Zeeland en Limburg[3] bij. Tussen Valkenswaard en Elburg geven 82 veldkeien aan waar zich de luisterplekken bevinden.
Liberation Route Europe is a transnational memorial, a trail connecting WWII remembrance sites and stories across Europe. Our initiative is featured on page 46 of the Fletcher Hotels – Liberation Route Europe Tour Book 2024. Scroll up to download. It starts in Dutch and continues in English at the bottom. Also visit https://www.liberationroute.com/themed-routes
Liberation Route Europe is an international remembrance trail that connects the main regions along the advance of the Western Allied Forces toward the liberation of Europe and final stage of the Second World War. The route started in 2008 as a Dutch regional initiative in the Arnhem-Nijmegen area and then developed into a transnational route that was officially inaugurated in Arromanches on June 6, 2014, during the Normandy D-day commemorations. The route goes from Southern England (commemorating the early years of the war) through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands to Berlin in Germany, then extends to the Czech Republic and Poland. The southern route starts in Italy. As a form of remembrance tourism, LRE aims to unfold these Allied offensives of 1944 and 1945 in one narrative combining the different perspectives and points of view. By combining locations with personal stories of people who fought and suffered there, it gives visitors the opportunity to follow the Allied march and visit significant sites from war cemeteries to museums and monuments but also events and commemorations. In April 2019, Liberation Route Europe became a certified Cultural Route of the Council of Europe.[1]
