WHEN LEGAL PROTECTION IS NOT ENOUGH
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 2020-10-31

Heritage is submitted to diverse and complex synergies. So, the mechanisms that ensure the conservation and survival of historical elements are variable and can change through time. Sometimes interests associated with State or regional policies can disagree with interests of owners and even of the rest of citizens. Legal and politic protection can not to be the most effective solution if the problem is disregarded by the population, when it’s time to deal with which are the critical challenges. We will try to promote a reflection of these elements through the example of the Tanneries quarter, in Vic (Catalonia). It is an ensemble protected as a BCIN (Cultural Good with National Interest) with a Cultural Heritage Protection for its ethnological value, situated next to the river in a singular space in the old city of Vic, that, despite or because its legal protection, is about to collapse. This architectural complex has other examples in other closer cities such as Lleida or Granollers, were traditional works has been rediscovered. With this paper we will try to promote a discussion in order to establish the guidelines to face the main clues for heritage conservation, through research, preservation, diffusion and use of space beyond local or regional scope.


Author(s): Gomez Bach, Anna (UAB) - Rocafiguera, Montserrat (UB; Fundació Esquerda)