A road is a way of transferring and connecting people, tradesware, art and ideas
Via Egnatia Foundation
The Via Egnatia Foundation promotes cross border cooperation and contacts in the region of the Via Egnatia in the fields of culture, science, sustainable tourism and (peace) education. Next activity in the region will be a research mission in Albania (see Agenda).
Contribute
You can help the VEF to achieve its goals in various ways.
Donations for the VEF and several projects it undertakes are welcome. But you can also help our cause by walking on Via Egnatia, join the band, etc. Read more...!
Via Egnatia cooking
We cooperate with Engin Akin who, with Mirsini Lambraki, has written a unique and twice awarded book about about Turkish and Greek (= Yunan in Turkish) cuisine. She will write a multinational recipe book which covers Rome to Istanbul and includes Via Egnatia. Cooking sessings will be held in collaboration with local people from May 2012. Saterday May 12 she will be in Peqin, Albania in the Cultural Centre to meet the local women and Sunday 13 in Librazhd in Restaurant Natural, see Agenda and our cooking page. You can learn more about Engin on her website.
Mapping the road for walking
For years now we stimulate walking along Via Egnatia.
After preliminay surveys in 2007 and 2008 we organised caravan tours in 2009, 2010 and 2011: we have walked most of Via Egnatia. During the 2011 walk we have marked the trail in Albania, established new contacts and gathered details for a description of the route. You can find reports here. Photos are provided in the top menu under Photo Galleries and links to YouTube films under Publicity.
For the near future we only will have other surveying missions (see Agenda.
If you want to hike, it is up to you. You could use our Guide for Albania or you could contact us for other advice. After our surveying mission in May we hope to complete a guide from Dürres/Apollonia in Albania, though FYRoMacedonia, to Florina - Greece.
