Literatura y paisaje: recursos para el desarrollo local

Abstract

Tourism has in landscape a very valuable economic good. This is a resource that has been quickly incorporated to the set of exploited products to tourism. There are many different ways to approach landscapes. Reading literary documents easies the idealization oflandscapes in the people's minds. These landscapes have been recreated by an author through his own experience. lts description that integrates natural and cultural elements, helps us to understand space that is patrimony of geography. Local strategies for local development have not remained marginal to this thought of landscape valuation, integrating in it the real shapes and their ideal representations through literature. The fourth centenary commemoration of the prince edition of Don Quijote de La Mancha's adventures is giving force to the proliferation ofinitiatives to support rural tourism in the Spanish region called La Mancha, as part of its strategies of local development.