The World Heritage Convention and cultural landscapes of the enlightened Spanish Royal Arsenals: The case of the Royal Arsenal of Cartagena (Spain)
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Peñalver Martínez, María Jesús; Segado Vázquez, Francisco Enrique; Maciá Sánchez, Juan FranciscoKnowledge Area
Construcciones ArquitectónicasPublication date
2016Publisher
DIDAPRESS Università degli Studi di Firenze. Dipartimento di ArchitetturaBibliographic Citation
PEÑALVER MARTÍNEZ, María Jesús, SEGADO VÁZQUEZ, Francisco Enrique y MACIÁ SÁNCHEZ, Juan Francisco. The World Heritage Convention and cultural landscapes of the enlightened Spanish Royal Arsenals: The case of the Royal Arsenal of Cartagena (Spain). En: Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean: XV to XVIII Centuries: Vol. IV. Firenze: DIDAPRESS Università degli Studi di Firenze. Dipartimento di Architettura, 2016. p. 418-424. ISBN: 978-88-96080-60-3Keywords
ArsenalCultural landscape
World heritage
Spain
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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.
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