European Heritage Days 2022

From the Roman amphitheatre to the National Museum, from the opera house to the mountain hotel to the seaside resort. Some of these buildings impress or provoke with their size and décor, some are modest or utilitarian. Leisure facilities are just as important as roads or homes - they are, as we say in times of pandemic, systemically relevant. This is where people listen, marvel and play. This is where encounters are made, stories are enacted and competitions are fought out. In places of leisure we relax, develop and evolve. There is bathing, dancing and laughing - often from the first to the last hour of the day.

The Heritage Days 2022 will guide the public on a journey through the ages. To places of art, recreation and sport: from medieval and pre-industrial places of recreation such as baths and theatres, it leads to the spa hotel of the Belle Epoque, to the first sports hall, to the Volkshaus or museum of the 19th and early 20th centuries. On foot on cultural trails, in a cable car or by steamboat. As part of our cultural heritage, many sports and art venues are not just backdrops, but we continue to use them day in and day out. The Monument Days also take up questions that move people's minds today: What will happen to the empty cinema hall, what is the old cable car station used for and how should the dilapidated indoor swimming pool be renovated? Can the former railway station building be converted into a fitness room or the disused gymnasium into a concert hall? People's leisure behaviour is changing. So are the demands on the places where we do sport and experience art. The European Heritage Days will shed light on what it takes to keep historically significant places of leisure alive and not degenerate into stage sets. Experience stirring stories on small and large stages: spotlights on!

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