Keywords
Industrial heritage
Mining heritage
Historical site
Spain
Key Words Plus
Cultural Heritage
Industrial Heritage
History Sites
Conservation and restoration
España.
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Abstract
This article analyzes a series of examples of intervention in Spanish mining heritage, with the purpose of preservingthis patrimony, while its cultural and touristic development takes place at the same time. To understand how it hasbeen possible that the society assumed the patrimonial value of this industrial heritage, the evolution of the conceptof heritage and landscape is briefly explained, analyzing the changes produced in both concepts and raising that themining patrimony finds it real sense of existence based on the new idea of landscape following the definition includedin the Convention of Florence. This is due to the specific characteristics of mining heritage, which on one handdistinguish it as unique within the field of industrial heritage, but on the other hand, imply that new models and conceptsof musealization are needed. The Mining Park of Rio Tinto (province of Huelva, Andalucía) and the Mining Parkof Almadén (province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha) are the examples here analyzed, for which the landscapeand the relation with human activities have been the axes of their musealization and touristic development, whilethe Mining Landscape of Ojos Negros has been turned into a scenery for contemporary artistic activities, creating adifferent way of intervening in this landscape and of promoting its recovery for society.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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