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The Council for Cultural Co-operation retained
this theme in 1990, in the context of a movement of interest for
this subject as testified by the great exhibition at Palazzo Grassi
in Venice and by the success of Celtic music festivals.
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It was also a question of calling upon
multidisciplinary research and of confronting the most recent
scientific concepts. It was the subject of a 1990 study and of an
evaluation by the Advisory Committee in 1992.
 Goals and
objectives
The Council of Europe established as its
objectives: the exhaustive census of the Celtic sites of interest
with an aim towards cultural tourism, in connection with the
efforts carried out in Great Britain through the "Trail of the
Celts" during the European year of tourism; the signposting of the
sites by a common European logo; and finally the editing of the
inventory and maps of the sites listed and signposted as well as
the composition of a calendar of contemporary activities of
interest. It was also a question of encouraging the development of
Celtic collections in museums and of restoring sometimes badly
maintained sites.
development
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Carnac stones, France
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The greatest difficulty encountered in the
concretisation of this theme on European territories was
represented by the impossibility of constituting a network of
multidisciplinary experts and of overcoming the feuds among
scientific schools. On the other hand, a study was undertaken in
Ireland on the question of heritage, tourism and education, by
researching an intersection with the topic of monastic influence
(Irish monks of the High Middle Ages).
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european dimension of the theme
"The Celts are Indo-Europeans whose precise origin
is mysterious; one finds them for the first time with precision in
current Austria: the civilisation of Hallstatt lasts from 800 to
500 B.C., then, until the Christian era, it is the site of
Tène (Switzerland) which is used as reference ... During the
first millennium before Christ they migrate in small groups, which
dominate without eliminating the conquered populations, and are
constituted in a kind of "royal tribe of the heads", contributing
to the creation of mixed peoples. Present in the Alpine and Danube
areas (the Bohemians of Bohemia, the Gauls of the Cisalpine
regions), they went to the north of Gaul ... from where they pass
to Britain; towards the south, they become Iberian Celts in Spain
and on the west of the Rhone (Ensérune), Celto-Ligurians on
the east of the river (Entremont); the most daring settled in
Anatolia in 275/274 (Galatians)" (Georges Duby).
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