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A look back at the symposium at the French Senate: The Freedom Pyrenees Europe Routes in the spotlight

May 6, 2025 0 comments

On Monday April 28, 2025, Josette Durrieu, Secretary-Manager, and Yoan Rumeau, President, represented the Itinéraires Liberté Pyrénées Europe at the French Senate, at the invitation of Mr. Bruno Favel, Head of the World Heritage Mission at the French Ministry of Culture, and Mrs. Catherine Morin-Desailly, President of the French Commission for Cultural Affairs. They took part in a symposium entitled "33 Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe at the heart of the territories", an event bringing together [...]

🚗 Memory & Heritage Rally - June 21, 2025 in SEILHAN (31).

May 6, 2025 0 comments

UNPRECEDENTED COLLABORATION BETWEEN LE ROUTARD AND ITINÉRAIRES LIBERTÉ PYRÉNÉES EUROPE.

April 4, 2025 0 comments

The Association's Board of Directors has approved the principle of an unprecedented collaboration with the Guide du Routard® and Hachette Editions for the publication in October 2025 of a guide to the Chemins de la Liberté in the Pyrenees. This partnership with Hachette Editions is an extraordinary opportunity for our Association," says Mr. Béziers, "to design and distribute a Guide du Routard® based on the twelve routes we have documented and proposed for certification [...].

A LOOK BACK AT THE EVALUATION VISIT BY THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S EXPERT.

November 10, 2024 0 comments

From November 8 to 9, 2024, members of the association and their partners welcomed Maria Gravari Barbas, a professor at the University of Paris, who was commissioned by the Permanent Secretariat of the Council of Europe's Cultural Routes to assess the application of the Itinéraires Liberté Pyrénées Europe. During the visit, Ms Gravari Barbas was able to discover five of the twelve routes proposed for certification and meet a number of partners, before exchanging views with all the members of the [...].

The Association ITINÉRAIRES-LIBERTÉ-PYRÉNÉES-EUROPE will be present at the Banyuls-sur-Mer symposium.

October 19, 2024 Comments are disabled.

On October 17 and 18, 2024, a major symposium was held in Banyuls-sur-Mer (Pyrénées-Orientales). The theme was "Les Passeurs et les évadés durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale" ("Smugglers and escapees during the Second World War"). A total of 16 contributors contributed to renewing the history and historiography of escape networks to Spain and the diplomatic stakes involved. The event was well attended, with 245 participants. In addition to the conferences, school workshops were organized around this theme. A tribute was paid to the historian [...].

13th annual Council of Europe Cultural Routes Forum

September 30, 2024 Comments are disabled.

In Visegrad-Hungary in September 2024 " In Visegrad-Hungary in September 2024, the 13th annual forum of the Council of Europe's cultural routes was held. Professor Robert Belot, President of the scientific committee of the association Itinéraires Liberté Pyrénées Europe, presented the application for certification of the 12 escape routes over the Pyrenees to Spain and Portugal between 1940 and 1944.

Escape from Eysses prison

September 24, 2024 0 comments

Denis BRUHL is the son of Robert BRUHL, who escaped to England in January 1944. Denis has gathered numerous documents and testimonies to understand how this escape took place. He has managed to track down some of the families who courageously sheltered the escapees in Cancon, Lougratte, Montaut, Saint Maurice-de-l'Estapelle, Montflanquin, Fourcès, Sos, Mazère-de-Neste, cantine du Rioumajou (Hautes Pyrénées) © Denis BRUHL

The partisans' song was born on the Col de Banyuls

August 16, 2024 0 comments

Famous writers such as Maurice Druon and Joseph Kessel have said that it was at the Col de Banyuls, on leaving France, that the song of the partisans was born. For 11 sites, panels with commentary and illustrated with period photographs will complete the information for hikers taking these "paths". They pay tribute to the courage of the local population, who helped those fleeing the occupying forces (resistance fighters, Jews, young STO draft dodgers joining the Free French troops in Algiers...) to cross over to Spain. Among them were writers [...]

Testimonies from deportees

August 12, 2024 0 comments

The documentary film aims to pay tribute to the men, women and children who climbed them by the hundreds of thousands, through an aesthetic and poetic narrative that is above all memorial and educational, with the aim of denouncing the hatred that produced this suffering and passing on to younger generations the responsibility of ensuring that it does not happen again.

80 years of the Liberation
Historical re-enactment

August 4, 2024 0 comments

SATURDAY August 24 at the airfield 9:30am: Members welcome in Salle Sévigné for CFP Museum AGM10:30am: CFP/49 RI AGM 12:30pm: Verre de l'amitié - Meal on camp for AGM participants14:30pm: Ceremonies at Magnoac steles (Campuzan, Vieuzos, Monléon, Monlong and Chélan bridge)6:00 pm: From Chélan, movement to Château de Pernet for presentation of PC Céroni, then memorial march to Place Soulés in Castelnau7:00 pm: Reception of members for the [...]