The European Route of Historic Pharmacies and Medicinal Gardens
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MATERIA MEDICA: A LIVING HERITAGE
Since the Middle Ages, historic pharmacies and medicinal gardens established in monasteries, convents, hospitals, cities, and rural communities throughout Europe have preserved and transmitted millennia-old knowledge.
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The European Route of Historic Pharmacies and Medicinal Gardens currently extends across 13 countries, creating a cultural and scientific network that spans Europe and connects communities, institutions, and landscapes linked to the history of pharmacy and materia medica.
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A mosaic of destinations that brings together historic pharmacies, museums, and medicinal gardens across Europe. A cultural and natural journey to discover materia medica as a shared living heritage.
Huelva 2026: 5th Meeting of Cultural Route of the Council of Europe Managers in Spain concludes
From 23 to 25 March 2026, Huelva hosted the 5th Meeting of Cultural Route Managers of the Council of Europe, bringing together European networks for dialogue and cooperation.
Aromas Itinerarium Salutis at the 5th Meeting of Cultural Route Managers of the Council of Europe in Spain
Aromas Itinerarium Salutis – The European Route of Historic Pharmacies and Medicinal Gardens will participate in the 5th Meeting of Cultural Route Managers of the Council of Europe in Spain, held in La Rábida (Huelva) in March 2026.
Discover Pharmacy Museums – 5th Edition “One route, many voices”
Discover Pharmacy Museums 2026: museums and medicinal gardens across Europe share their voice for International Museum Day
La Nau awarded the European Heritage Label: founding site of the Cultural Route of the Council of Europe “Aromas Itinerarium Salutis”
The Centre Cultural La Nau of the Universitat de València receives the European Heritage Label. The European recognition highlights the historical and cultural role of the institution, founding site of the Aromas Itinerarium Salutis route.
Pharmacy objects and European heritage: Call for Papers now open for the 2nd AIS Annual Forum 2026
The 2nd AIS Annual Forum 2026 (Kaunas, 16–17 April) invites proposals on pharmacy objects as ethnographic heritage, bridging research, collections and knowledge dissemination. Abstract deadline: 15 January 2026.
The Hygeia Legacy 2025 in Torregrotta: a successful edition for the Cultural Route of the Council of Europe AIS
In Torregrotta, the 2025 edition of “The Hygeia Legacy” gathered European voices on medicinal plants and materia medica as drivers of sustainable development. An intergenerational and interdisciplinary exchange within the framework of the European Route of Historic Pharmacies and Medicinal Gardens
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