The European Peace Run 2024 began with His Holiness Pope Francais lighting the Peace Torch in Vatican Square. A very successful Peace Run carried the Peace Torch around Europe, visiting Paris during the Olympic Games. See highlights: https://www.peacerun.org/eu/news/2024/1203/5305/
The European Peace Run 2023 started on March 13th in Sagres, Portugal. The runners carried the torch through Spain and France to north Italy. On April 24th a new route started in the United Kingdom, passing through England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands. As runners carried the torch through the Netherlands another Peace Run started in Hungary passing through Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic. In September the Peace Torch was carried through the Baltic countries, and on to Warsaw, Berlin, Denmark, Hamburg, Brussels and Luxembourg. Peace Runs also took place in Rome and Croatia in the autumn, and in Finland and Austria in the summertime.
In 2022, the European Peace Run covered routes in Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Finland, Bosnia, Macedonia, Slovenia and France. The highlight of the year 2022 was a continuous Peace Run along the River Danube, from the Black Forest in Germany almost to the Black Sea, passing through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania and finishing with a Peace Tree planting in Moldova.
In 2020 the Peace torch started its European journey in Lisbon, Portugal. The Peace Run was opened by the President of Portugal, Marcel Rebelo de Sousa, at the Presidential Palace in Belem.
Live Television Interview outside the National Stadium in Sofia at the opening of the Peace Run in 2018.
The Torch was lit by the Mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova.
Launching the Peace Run in Sofia
Please join us along the route and carry the Peace torch for a few steps, a kilometre or further.
Peace Run Interview with Jorge Pina (Portuguese)
Suggested activities for youth at home and at schools:
Download the Peace Run brochure Europe:
Download "An Ever-Blossoming Dream - A global torch relay for world peace since 1987"
