El patrimonio como tema de estudios geográficos

Abstract

Cultural patrimony or heritage is made of a set of ideas, objects of the naturallandscape,artistic creations, buildings, technologies, etc., that accumulate through time and are passed to the descendants of a place as their footprints. This heritage deserves to be studied from the geographical point of view because it is a very important factor to understand the differing ways of spatial organization even in homogeneous territories. Cultural heritage gives birth to identity feelings to places that people adopt as theirs. This lead them to group in different sets that may be studied at local, regional, nationaland international levels.