The World Heritage Convention and cultural landscapes of the enlightened Spanish Royal Arsenals: The case of the Royal Arsenal of Cartagena (Spain)

In 1992 the World Heritage Convention became the first international legal instrument to recognise and protect cultural landscapes. The Committee acknowledged that cultural landscapes represent the "combined works of nature and of man". In 1994, the World Heritage Committee launched the Gl...

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Autores: Peñalver Martínez, María Jesús, Segado Vázquez, Francisco Enrique, Maciá Sánchez, Juan Francisco
Formato: capítulo de livro
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena(UPCT)
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital UPCT
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.upct.es:10317/7110
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10317/7110
http://www.fortmed.eu/OV/4-DEFENSIVE%20ARCHITECTURE%20OF%20THE%20MEDITERRANEAN_2016.pdf
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Arsenal
Cultural landscape
World heritage
Spain
Construcciones Arquitectónicas
6201 Arquitectura
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Resumo:In 1992 the World Heritage Convention became the first international legal instrument to recognise and protect cultural landscapes. The Committee acknowledged that cultural landscapes represent the "combined works of nature and of man". In 1994, the World Heritage Committee launched the Global Strategy for a representative, balanced and credible World Heritage List. To be included on the World Heritage List, sites must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria. The principal core of this investigation is going to know and to analyze the urban impact, territorial effects and heritage dimension that construction of the enlightened Spanish Royal Arsenals has meant for their cities. It will be known trough the case study, the Royal Arsenal of Cartagena. At last, this research to determine which of the selection criteria of Unesco can be present in these defensive cultural landscapes.