European Heritage Days

Our little Mera.

We will be running games at Musterio de Jerónimos for European Heritage Days for 2026.

So it's an initiative from a student from the Fine Arts Faculty in Lisbon who has a page called Rule for History.

So you can find some information there.

We're going to be at the...

I need to go check the name because that actually has a name.

The European Heritage Days of 2026 in Muster de Jerónimos in Belém.

We will be hosting sessions related to... ancient times of our history uh i'm going to be playing with uh legends and lists buyer is going to take assassin's creed and there will be a lot of other dms there so at least eight pms really

The châteaux in Médoc and Saint-Émilion are waking up early, but here in the historic port, the focus is on heritage and preservation.

It is European Heritage Days or Journées du Patrimoine, and apparently, the Grand Theatre is opening its doors for free tours between 10 and 5.

I considered going, but the queues were forming before 9, and I had other plans for the afternoon that require a bit more space to think.

I decide to head towards the Bassins à Flot district, crossing the Garonne via the Pont Chabannes.

I sip the coffee while watching the tram lines A, E, and F in the distance.

I was told that due to European Heritage Days, there are significant night works on the TBM network tonight.

Lines A, E, and F will be cut from 20H30 onwards, with replacement buses running every 10 to 20 minutes.

It is a reminder that even in a city designed for ease, things break down and you have to adapt.

There is a specific energy in Bordeaux right now.

You might have heard about the Journées du Patrimoine, the European Heritage Days.

They're taking over the city this weekend, turning the usual closed doors into open invitations.

I am told the Grand Theatre is opening its doors for free from 10 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, which is a rare treat for a neoclassical masterpiece by Victor Lewis.

Donc, évidemment, euh, inquiétude sur le, l'ampleur de la crise à l'Élysée.

Alors, initialement, c'était les Journées du patrimoine.

Il devait aller à Fort Boyard, mais vous imaginez une image du chef de l'État à Fort Boyard, bien connue pour ses jeux télévisés, à un moment où on a quelque chose, une tension, un climat dans le pays qui fait penser à certains, euh, chez certains-- qui fait penser qu'il peut y avoir un retour d'un phénomène type gilet jaune.

C'est évidemment décalé.

So, uh, so what's happened is first guy said never.

Second guy said, "No, but go into the shop if you want." And when I said to the woman in the shop who spoke a little bit of English, I said, "Can we get into the building?" She said, "Not at all." But then she sorta hesitated and said, "On the heritage days, Journées du patrimoine, it's gonna be open this month."

The 19th and the 20th?

I think that's what she said.

[outro music] So there you have it.

I've, uh, I summed it up there, but now that a few days have passed and I can sort of think a bit more clearly, it was quite a rush to do all that.

I would say, uh, if you're listening to this episode when it comes out, try and get your hands on one of those patrimony days, the Journées du patrimoine, Heritage Days, to get yourself in there.

Otherwise, go to the library if you want to do some work.

And to be honest, I wasn't aware until I really opened your website that there's just so much to see and there's so many options and so much to do.

Liam, speaking about the website, there's also a little bit of emphasis on Europe and European heritage days.

Why is that? I mean, I know the link, but for the benefit of our listeners, why has that been included? What's the importance there?

Yeah, so it was actually born out of an initiative that runs across the whole of Europe by the Council of Europe and the European Union called European Heritage Days.

So each country at this time of year that's involved have their own similar thing going on.

So it's good to know if anyone's got any holidays planned over the next couple of weeks anywhere in Europe.