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When is Danube Day celebrated?<\/strong>
Every year, 29 June marks Danube Day. This day is celebrated in all 14 countries of the Danube Basin - that's around 79 million people! These countries are: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.<\/p>\n

This coincides with the signing in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 1994 of the Convention on Co-operation for the Protection and Sustainable Use of the Danube River (ICPDR).<\/p>\n

Danube Day was celebrated for the first time in 2004, 10 years after the convention was signed.<\/p>\n

Each year, the day is marked with a slogan. For 2024 it is \"Keep the Danube Blue\" and for 2021 \"Discover the Danube\".<\/p>\n

Why are we celebrating Danube Day?<\/strong>
The 14 countries are organising various joint strategies and measures they can implement to protect this important river linking Europe from west to east. The day marks co-operation and solidarity between the countries sharing the Danube. Despite cultural differences, the day aims to emphasise a common desire, a common goal shared by all these countries: to protect the Danube.<\/p>\n

Governmental and non-governmental organisations in these countries are taking various measures to protect the river from threats such as pollution, drought or flooding.<\/p>\n

The day's celebrations aim to raise awareness of the importance of this European river and how it can be protected.<\/p>\n

The Danube and art<\/strong>
For Romanians, this impressive river has become a source of inspiration for many poems and artistic works. In 2019, on the occasion of Danube Day, 4 postmarks have been created with the Danube theme:<\/p>\n

The painting \"The Danube at Cazane\" (1930-1935) by Marius Bunescu is depicted on the 2.80 lei stamp;
The painting \"Landscape on the Danube\" (1934-1939) by Petre Iorgulescu Yor is on the 5 lei stamp;
painting \"The Danube at Turtucaia\" (1912-1916) by G. Petra\u0219cu is represented on the 8,50 lei stamp;
painting \"Landscape at Turtucaia. Danube\" (1938) by Iosif Iser is on the 12 lei stamp.
Alongside these, we can also mention poems such as:<\/p>\n

\"Danube\" by Nicolae Labis;
\"Trajan's Bridge\" by George Co\u0219buc;
\"Danube and Oltul\" by George Co\u0219buc;
\"Pastel\" by George Top\u00eerceanu.
Fun facts about the Danube
Here are some fascinating facts about the river to share with your little ones on Danube Day:<\/p>\n

Throughout history, the Danube has also been called Danubius, Istrus, Histru, Danare, Donaris, Phisos and Rio Divino; Napoleon Bonaparte called the Danube \"the king of Europe's rivers\"; it occupies about 10% of continental Europe; it is a river formed millions of years ago; it is the second longest river in Europe after the Volga; it is the river that passes through the most countries in the world (10 countries and 4 capitals);
It flows from the Black Forest Mountains in Germany into the Black Sea in Romania.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3199,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jet_sm_ready_style":"","_jet_sm_style":"","_jet_sm_controls_values":"","_jet_sm_fonts_collection":"","_jet_sm_fonts_links":"","event-organizer":"https:\/\/danubeday.org\/","event-date":"2024-06-29","event-hour":"09:00","event-date_end":1719705600,"event-gallery":[],"event-poster":"3200","event-type":"Educational","programul-evenimentului":"","adresa-desfasurarii-evenimentului":"Faleza Tulcea"},"location":[36],"class_list":["post-3201","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-tulcea"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danubedelta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danubedelta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danubedelta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danubedelta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danubedelta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danubedelta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danubedelta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}