{"id":9868,"date":"2025-07-29T08:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:55:14","slug":"80th-villach-fair-a-sign-of-active-alpe-adria-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/80th-villach-fair-a-sign-of-active-alpe-adria-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"80. Villacher Kirchtag: an event of a true Alps-Adriatic cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-19x-1024x780.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-19x-1024x780.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-19x-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-19x-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-19x-1536x1170.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-19x.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On July 28th 2025<b> <\/b>the 80th Villacher Kirchtag (Austria&#8217;s largest traditional festival) was\u00a0 not only a festive celebration, but also a stage for discussions about the directions for strengthening the Alps-Adriatic Region.<\/p>\n<p>The representatives of the Alps-Adriatic Centre (AACC) met the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Villach <strong><em>Guenther Albel<\/em> <\/strong>and <em><strong>Gerda Sandriesser<\/strong><\/em>, the Director of the Institute for Tourism of Municipality Brda <em><strong>Tina Samec Novak<\/strong><\/em> and the representative of the \u00bbPintar Estate\u00ab <em><strong>Tja\u0161a Pintar Keleman<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The intensification of the cooperation between Villach and the Municipality Brda was the thema in focus.<\/p>\n<p>The possibilities of cooperation were discussed also with the representatives of the Slovenian Municipalities Menge\u0161, Bled and Bohinjska Bistrica. Therefore the AACC is again in the role of the\u00a0 central platform for regional networking and European Cooperation &#8211; completely in the sense of a strong and cross-border Alps-Adriatic idea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9873\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-18y-1024x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-18y-1024x473.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-18y-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-18y-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-18y-1536x709.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xPHOTO-2025-07-28-17-29-18y.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xBildschirm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xBildschirm.png 554w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/xBildschirm-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 28th 2025 the 80th Villacher Kirchtag (Austria\u2019s largest traditional festival) was\u00a0 not only a festive celebration, but also a stage for discussions about the directions for strengthening the Alps-Adriatic Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-9868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}