Created in 1955, the Europe Prize is awarded each year to a city which has been especially successful in promoting the European ideal.To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of this Prize the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has decided to pay a special tribute to the prize-winning cities in a commemorative book: Taking Europe to Heart.This lavishly illustrated book guides the reader through sixty-one cities representing, each in its own way, one step in the construction of Europe.From Coventry to Kaliningrad, you are invited to discover Europe with all its peculiarities and its solidarity: sixty-one portraits, in writing and in pictures of cities whose hearts beat in unison for the same ideal.About 600 colour illustrations, Bound.
COVENTRY (1955), OFFENBACH (1956), PUTEAUX (1956), BORDEAUX (1957), TORINO(1957), DEN HAAG(1958), WIEN (1958), ISTANBUL (1959), AARHUS (1960), BRUGGE (1960), RODOS (1961), SCHWARZENBEK (1961), PALERMO (1962), AUBENAS (1963), INNSBRUCK (1964), TÜBINGEN (1965), KRISTIANSAND (1966), STRASBOURG (1967), FAENZA (1968), KARLSRUHE (1969), NANCY (1969), SIERRE (1970), UDINE (1971), ZELZATE (1972), WÜRZBOURG (1973), CESENATICO (1974), MÂCON (1974), DARMSTADT (1975), DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL (1976), AVIGNON (1977), TUBIZE (1978), GRAZ (1979), PASSAU (1980), BRAUNFELS (1981), BRAINE-L'ALLEUD (1982), LAUSANNE (1983), ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA (1984), SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (1985), ARNHEM (1986), KLAGENFURT (1986), BERLIN-NEUKÖLLN (1987), AALBORG (1988), LUCCA(1989), PLOUGUERNEAU (1990), BURSA (1991), DELFZIJL (1992), BOCHOLT(1993), MÜLHEIM AN DER RUHR (1993), LINZ (1994), BOLOGNA (1995), WANSBECK DISTRICT COUNCIL (1996), REGENSBURG (1997), CZESTOCHOWA (1998), SPEYER (1999), COCKERMOUTH (2000), MARVEJOLS (2000), SANKT PÖLTEN (2001), GDYNIA (2002), KLAIPEDA (2003) OUDENAARDE (2004), KALININGRAD (2005)