Cultural landscapes heritage

A heritage cultural landscape is shaped by both natural factors and human activities.

A natural landscape cannot be considered a heritage cultural landscape for its sole beauty. The human must have left his mark on it.

Remarkable features

The heritage cultural landscape is recognized by a community for its remarkable landscape characteristics, which bear witness to a particular human activity in this territory.

These landscape features deserve to be highlighted for their historical, emblematic or identity-oriented interest.

Historical interest

• It stems from human activities and events that have left their mark in the landscape over time.
• It could, for example, manifest itself in human changes to topography or hydrography, traditional orientation of buildings, etc.

Emblematic interest

• It is based on the presence of symbolic elements, generally unique, which appear as emblems, such as the singular silhouette of a mountain and the constructions found there or the presence of an industrial site particularly marking the landscape.

Interest in identity

• It refers to the characteristics of the landscape that the community identifies with.
• Special agricultural, religious or artistic practices, in particular, may have contributed to the shaping and uniqueness of a place, in which the population is recognized.