WHAT IS CULTURAL HERITAGE?

Before the definition, we must know what a heritage is.

It’s the conjunction of goods and rights that a person have just for being part of a community or belong to a determinate social circle; or, in some cases, for inheritance. By this last one, humanity had different kinds of legacies and for this exist a classification of the heritage

Natural Heritage: This is formed by all those natural monuments that were created by the nature and acquired esthetic and scientific worth.

Natural monuments created with physical and biological formation or groups with those formations that have a great universal worth in an esthetic or scientific point of view

Geological and physiographic formations and zones tightly delimitated that constitute the habitat of different animal and vegetal species on the verge of extinction.

Cultural Heritage: it’s the inheritance received of our ancestors that becomes their testimony of their existence, vision of the world, living way and how they were; and it’s also their legacy for the future generations

Is divided in:

Tangible Movable Heritage

Those that have a handmade or folkloric origin and constitute important collections for science, art history and the country’s cultural diversity. Typified by mobile objects that keep some meaning for the community like objects with archeological (works of art, manuscripts, documents, historical artifacts), historic, scientific and artistic worth.

Tangible Immovable Heritage

These are works that for the sizes or the weigh are typified by their immobility like monuments, cultural landscape, archeological zones, historical places or monuments, architectonical conjunctions, non natural scientific collections and engineering works.   

Intangible Heritage

It’s the invisible part that belongs to the spirit in any culture formed by the language, customs, traditions, legends, myths, music and poetry. In general, the way of life and the traditional technologies of the land.

Maria Vidaña