The landscape as a cultural heritage. From a monumental to a territorial vision of heritage

Abstract

The landscapes are seen today as a cultural product, therefore, they are objects of study, documentation, interpretation, management and conservation. This article seeks to explore the different views that landscapes have, paying special attention to urban landscape. This approach was made through Letters, Statements and International and Local conventions related to cultural heritage, in which it has been possible to identify and characterize a change of patrimonial vision, moving from an approach that gave full prominence to the monuments or properties as elements with own independent values, to an integral and territorial approach, which understands that the environment, whether rural or urban, is an integral part of any tangible or intangible cultural property. Pointing out the academic treatment required for addressing the landscape and its importance to the territorial analysis, analyzing the Spanish case, is pretended. Finally, an initial approach to the Colombian case is made, in which a first approach to the study of the landscape is identified, which suffers of the definition of methodologies and the adoption of a comprehensive and territorial perspective.