Heritage cultural landscapes

A cultural heritage landscape is shaped by both natural factors and human activities.

 

A natural landscape cannot be considered a cultural heritage landscape for its beauty alone. Humans must have left their mark there.

 

Remarkable features The cultural heritage landscape is recognized by a community for its remarkable landscape characteristics which reflect a particular human activity on this territory.

 

These landscape features deserve to be highlighted for their historical, emblematic or identity interest. Historical interest It arises from human activities and events that have left their mark on the landscape over time. It could, for example, manifest itself in the modifications made by humans to the topography or hydrography, in the traditional orientation of buildings, etc.

Emblematic interest It is based on the presence of symbolic elements, generally unique, which act as emblems, such as the singular silhouette of a mountain and the buildings located there or the presence of an industrial site marking the landscape in a particular way. .

Identity interest It refers to the features of the landscape with which the community identifies.

Particular agricultural, religious or artistic practices, in particular, may have contributed to shaping a place and giving it its own character, in which the population recognizes itself.