Identities of the Alhambra territory. Registration instruments and recognition processes of cultural landscape

Abstract

In the process of revitalizing cultural landscapes, there is a need to have a comprehensive documentary record of the territory, using different representation techniques that help to understand the characteristics and identities of the same. This research project aims to set a series of measures to help recording and disseminating the cultural values of the landscape of the Dehesa del Generalife. a territory in continuity with the monumental complex of the Alhambra, in order to revive and strengthen the architectural, archaeological, landscape, environmental and ethnological resources of an environment with an unquestionable cultural value. The work methodology involves a strategy of sensitive knowledge t0 detect solutions of preservation in patrimonial spaces of a high patrimonial interest. The notion of "cultural landscape" is a broad concept based on the anthropological perception of an area, which includes the historical, cultural and symbolic value of the visible and not visible elements that compose a landscape and its relations. The research starts from the premise of the Master Plan of the Alhambra which proposes a review of the current knowledge of the monument from a territorial perspective to overcome the traditional conception of the Alhambra as palatial city surrounded by walls, in order to integrate it into its territorial context.