Cultural routes: characterization and challenges of a new category of world cultural heritage

This paper studies in depth the progress that cultural routes, as a new category of World Cultural Heritage, introduce in heritageprotection, as a result of their multidimensional, transnational and wide territorial extension. For this purpose it focuses onboth its scientific definition and its diff...

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Autor Principal: Martínez Yáñez, Celia; Universidad de Granada
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Instituto Carlos Arbeláez Camacho para el patrimonio arquitectónico y urbano 2014
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revApuntesArq/article/view/8900
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Sumario: This paper studies in depth the progress that cultural routes, as a new category of World Cultural Heritage, introduce in heritageprotection, as a result of their multidimensional, transnational and wide territorial extension. For this purpose it focuses onboth its scientific definition and its differentiation from other heritage categories, as well as on the challenges that set out itsfull assumption in the framework of the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage. To thisend we analyze the doctrinal documents developed by the International Committee on Cultural Routes of Icomos, their inadequateassimilation in the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention and the nominationof various cultural routes (or segments of), that have been inscribed according to other heritage categories, resulting in theirunderrepresentation in the World Heritage List. Finally, we suggest some lines of work that should be addressed in the future toachieve a better recognition and assimilation of cultural routes, focusing on the development of new principles and guidelinesthat are adequate to their peculiarities and able to improve the reporting and evaluation procedures of such nominations, aswell as their subsequent homogeneous and shared management.