After 3 years, the NewPilgrimAge project came to its end. After a very successful online closing ceremony held by Szombathely, we are almost finished. It was a very nice journey and all of the partners, and the people as well who worked on this project gained lots of new knowledge and memories.

Instead of cancelling everything because of the pandemic outbreak, Szombathely decided to make everything possible in the virtual world, and needless to say, it was very professional and well made. 

Before ending the project, a handbook was made about how to achieve community engagement in heritage projects with the active involvement of local residents in order to develop and design new cultural products and services. 

The Mindspace team made a whole little magazine called “Pilgrim Pages” dedicated to the NewPilgrimAge Project.

Two pilot actions have been implemented in Dugo Selo: Virtual exhibition around St. Martin’s church on the Martin Hill and QR code quiz “The Life of St.Martin on Earth”. The virtual exhibition is a downloadable application featuring the 3D version of the Church of St. Martin at the Martin Hill through a virtual tour, interactive map and info points. The QR code quiz is a game containing the set of St. Martin-related questions. The two actions supposed to serve primarily for education purposes, but is also good for entertainment and tourism development.

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Unpli Veneto aimed at empowering regional actors in the valorisation of St. Martin's tangible and intangible heritage. For that reason they developed and tested a web portal (www.sanmartinoinveneto.it) and the “Talking Map of Saint Martin in Veneto" to narrate St. Martin related heritage of the Veneto region in modern ways.

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The main aim in Szombathely was to present the tangible and intangible elements of the Saint Martin's cultural heritage with innovative tools using the latest technological solutions. They developed an application which is an info-communicational tool that presents Saint Martin’s tangible and intangible heritage in a way that helps understanding, increases local identity, while at the same time motivates users to physically visit the tangible objects.

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Maribor has made a mobile application named MariborTour, which is an interactive presentation of St. Martin’s Cultural Route in the area of the Municipality of Maribor showing the points of sights on the way. They also establised 2 information points along the way.

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The Municipality of Albenga in strict cooperation with the local community developed various things. They created the concept of XXI. Century Pilgrim and promoted the Via Sancti Martini and St. Martins' spiritual legacy in schools. They also made ICT-based personalised visits of the city through QR codes, the multimedia centre of the Gallinaria island and Saint Martin plus the 'Scopri Albenga’ website for touristic and cultural informations.

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“I hope the project NPA will be successfully carried out. I also wish that the rose will follow into St. Martin’s footsteps and spread to as many places as St. Martin visited”, says Josip Rogin, the hybridizer of the rose Cappa Sancti Martini dedicated to the town of Dugo Selo and its patron St. Martin.

"Working in the field of culture I began to elaborate on Martin: I organised smaller events, compiled brochures, marked the first possible pilgrim routes and found out the name Via Sancti Martini". Interview with Róbert Orbán, Chairman of Via Sancti Martini.

It was about rosé wine. In promoting this wine the students emphasized the rich tradition of winemaking in Dugo Selo as well as its connection to St. Martin.

Dugo Selo is part of St. Martin's way, and the link is precisely its action through sharing, solidarity help. In the NPA project, where the City is one of its partners, the Red Cross has included its own Self-service shopping cart project”. Interview with Gordana Kocaj, director of the Red Cross Society of the Dugo Selo.