NEWS

Official opening

The city of Chantilly and the Polo Club will host July the 7th-9th the Official opening of the European Route d'Artagnan! The program of the three days of festivities is: show at the Grandes Ecuries of the Castle, visit of the Living museum of Horse, hiking in the forest of Chantilly, stage fencing show at the castle of Lamorlaye, polo demonstration... A parade on horseback for the official opening on Sunday, July the 9th, in the presence of the public, will close this unforgettable weekend.

Information & registration: routedartagnan.ffe.com

For foreign horse riders: routedartagnan.communication@hotmail.com +33 (0)6 01 29 10 12

4th Steering committee & 2nd meeting of the Scientific committee

The 4th Steering committee held on March the 10th in Turin (Italy). Hosted by the Re-gional council of Piedmont, partners exchanged on the progress of the 4 Work pack-ages, as well as on the next steps. The work of the Sci-entific committee was also presented. A dozen local stakeholders for the Italian expansion took part in the meeting. A visit of Pinerolo has then highlighted the richness of the equestrian heritage of the city and es-tablished contact for future partnerships between Euro-pean museums. The 2nd meeting of the Scientific committee took place on May the 12th in Boulogne (France). Presentation of the research of the three commissions and the application form to the label "European cultural route" were at the agenda.

NEWSLETTER N°4 / JUNE 2017

School of Young European Musketeers

Experimentation of the programme 'School of Young European Musketeers' in partnership with a class of 8-10-years-old pupils of Auria DIRAT in Lectoure (France) continues. Lessons in class on the theme of d'Artagnan were followed by an internship in Con-dom from April the 24th to the 28th 2017, during

which pupils themselves are introduced to fencing with the master-at-arms Joel St. MEZARD, but also to horse riding at the equestrian center L’Etrier condomois. This experience was covered by a team of videomakers, to release as an educational tool through the Réseau Canopé, reference for teachers in France, and then to be

spread in others countries.

EDITORIAL

What a long way we have come since the early days of the project of "Route d'Artagnan" at the end of 2013!

National equestrian fed-erations and their commit-tees, regional authorities, cultural and sports asso-ciations, SMEs... contrib-uted to the implementation of this initiative, world pre-miere.

To few months of the end of Europe's support, the efforts must been in-creased to make of the European Route d’Artag-nan a tourism, equestrian and cultural quality prod-uct.

We are counting on all of you and hope you to come in numbers for the official opening of the European Route d'Artagnan in Chan-tilly!

Frédéric BOUIX,

Secretary-General of the

FFE

Alain LIBEROS,

President-founder of AERA

FFE CDT

A. DE GALARD

T. SAMECK

AGENDA

5th Steering committee

23/06/2017 in Maastricht (Netherlands)

D’Artagnan’s Festival

24-25/06/2017 in Maastricht (Netherlands)

Official opening Register here!

7-9/07/2017 in Chantilly (France)

Equirando Website

21-23/07/2017 in Bourg-en-Bresse (France)

D’Artagnan chez d’Artagnan’s Festival

12-13/08/2017 in Lupiac (France)

Dissemination’s conference

22/09/2017 in Auch (France)

CONSORTIUM FOCUS

Borders: agreement for the BENELUX

On the initiative of the FITE and with the

strong support of the FFE, notably in the

framework of the implementation of the

European Route d'Artagnan, ministries of

Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands

and France signed on

May the 15th a memo-

randum of understand-

ing between their vet-

erinary services. Thus,

from the 1st June

2017, the obligation of

health certificate will

be deleted for certain

movement of equidae

between Belgium, the Netherlands, Grand

Duchy of Luxembourg and France. The

aim is to extend these provisions to other

countries concerned by the European

Route d'Artagnan: Spain, Italy, Germany.

Charter for lodgings labelised

« European Route d’Artagnan’ stopover »

Downloadable here.

Beacons’ delivery

The first European Route d'Artagnan’s beacons arrived! Operations of markup are already scheduled for the next few weeks, in European Route d’Artagnan’s itinera-ries, particularly in Gers!

Press coverage

To date, 177 articles have been dedicated

to the European Route d’Artagnan:

20 in England, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands

132 in France including:

- 17 in national press: Aujourd’hui en

France, Direct Matin, Femme actuelle,

Le Figaro, Le Parisien…

- 48 in Equestrian or Tourism specialised

press

- 67 in regional daily press

25 on websites

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your publications!

Founded in 1975, the Fédération Internationale de Tourisme Equestre (FITE) brings together national equestrian tour-i s m o r g a n i z a t i o n s throughout the world, represents them, coordi-nate their action and con-tributes to the develop-ment of all tourist activi-ties related to the use of horses.

The Ligue Equestre Wal-lonie Bruxelles (LEWB) is since 2000 the French wing of the Fédération Royal Belge des Sports Equestres. It manages the eques-trian tourism but also the pedagogy and training related to horse riding.

FFE CDT

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