MAIN AIMS OF THE THE ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNES "POLISH GOTHIC CASTLES"

The main objective of the Association is to establish co-operation of the communes which have Gothic castles in their area. The co-operation will focus on promotion of those historic medieval constructions by:
- designing a tourist trail round the Gothic castles
- promoting a group of Gothic castles and other buildings in Poland as high quality tourist attractions
- initiating, supporting and implementing local ideas regarding tourism and tourism-related activities
- gathering and disseminating tourist information about the communes which are the members of the Association
- co-operating with domestic and foreign travel agencies and with tourist information centres

MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION:

Bytów, Człuchów, Dzierzgoń, Skarszewy, Prabuty, Malbork, Sztum, Gniew, Kwidzyn, Nowe, Ostróda, Nidzica, Olsztyn, Lidzbark Warmiński, Kętrzyn, Ryn

BOARD MEMBERS (from April 2009 to April 2011)
Chairman of the Board - Piotr Grzymowicz (Olsztyn)
Deputy Chairman - Paweł Bukowski (Nidzica)

Members:
Magdalena Marszałkowska (Malbork)
Alicja Podlewska (Sztum)
Iwona Kluk (Lidzbark Warmiński)
Patryk Kozłowski (Nidzica)
Damian Nietrzeba (Kętrzyn)

Headquarters:
10 Pieniężnego St.
10-006 Olsztyn

tel./fax. 089 535 32 76, 602 68 70 90
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Office Manager: Izabela Narożniak

Title of the project:
"Sharing experience on the use of historic heritage for development of border areas"

Partners: The Association of the Communes Polish Gothic Castles, Warmińskie Museum in Lidzbark Warmiński, a branch of the Museum of Warmia and Mazury Museum in Olsztyn, the Administration of the District of Bagrationovsk

The duration of the project: 4th January 2010 - 3rd June 2010

The value of the project: 16,225 euro

The project is performed from the Fund of Small Transborder and Interregional Grants and from the means of the European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.

The main objective of the project is to exchange the experience between two Polish partners and one Russian partner on using cultural and historic heritage towards development of tourism and economy in small and medium towns (communes) in north-eastern Poland and Kaliningrad Oblast.

The main activities of the project: a visit of the Russian partners in the castles in Lidzbark Warmiński and Ryn, preparation of a development plan for the castle Preussisch Eylau in Bagrationovsk, publication of a tourist map showing the trail of the Napoleonic Army leading through the castles in north-eastern Poland and Kaliningrad Oblast.

The project supports cooperation of partners who share historic past. The mutual heritage is now represented, for example, by the castles of the former State of the Teutonic Knights or traces of the campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte's army in East Prussia (today, north-eastern part of Poland and Kaliningrad Oblast). The aim of the project will be attained by creating transboder tourist products, which will link Poland and Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast).