The Route of the Wallachian Culture

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The concept behind the Wallachian Culture Route was born at the beginning of this century at the Rural Cultural Centre in Ochotnica Górna with the support of the local branch of Związek Podhalan (Highlanders Alliance) and academic communities from Kraków’s universities. It was first materialised in the form of a description, maps, route boards and then scientific publications and in the years 2007–2008. The current project is in turn the extension of the area of activities to the whole region of the Carpathian Mountains in Poland and in Slovakia. The concepts aims at “Increasing the use of Polish-Slovak borderland’s potential through the Wallachian cultural heritage”. This objective will be achieved thanks to marking the cultural tourism route presenting – in balance with natural values – the cultural heritage of the Wallachian settlers who were among the “founding fathers of Europe”, the depositaries and emissaries of the mountain culture which allowed them to manage the Carpathian Mountains region since the Middle Ages. Together with the route-marking activities, actions under the Carpathian University project will be carried out. These aim to popularise the Wallachian culture and its importance for local communities. The activities will be supplemented by meetings on the Wallachian route – educational/promotional events increasing the level of use of local heritage. The mission of the concept is the sublimation of Carpathian tourism, building and promoting sustainable tourism based on humanitarian and environmentally friendly patterns, which is a tool for the active protection of natural and cultural resources of the Carpathian Mountains, not their absolute exploitation. At the same time, it leads to enriching and diversifying tourist services in the gminas located in the Carpathian Mountains based on own, often underused human and landscape resources. This concept will by implemented by means of induction – bottom-up development of good practices, implementation of real, successful, small but numerous projects which encourage to be copied. It means that routes are made starting from small sections and then joined into bigger parts and groups.

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