Slovenski etnografski muzej

In addition to the instrumentalisation of culture with the aim of forging European connections, the main goal of the ECC mega-project is to encourage the tertiary sector as well as urban renovation and revitalisation of cities. In spite of all the promises and grand plans, there remains the impression that the Maribor 2012 project left nothing behind. But nonetheless, since 2012 a number of lively venues for grassrots cultural production have sprung up.

The article addresses Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route and the associated pilgrimage center of Santiago de Compostela which is situated in the northwest of modern-day Spain. The author deals with the historical changes to which the pilgrimage route was subjected with different intensity throughout its existence and focuses on its heritagisation in the frame of European cultural policy. Namely, the latter initiated the transformation of this ancient Roman Catholic tradition into one of the most promising identifiers of political and cultural space in contemporary Europe.

Experts and the general public were recently surprised by Pavle Medvešček’s discovery that a few decades ago a secret community of “Ancient Faith” believers was still living in Posočje. Four ethnologists reinterpreted Medvešček’s material in the light of their own expert knowledge and gave it the legitimacy of an ethnographic source.