SABROSA: TERRITORY AND HERITAGE, 2016,23_ 09

SABROSA: TERRITORY AND HERITAGE, 2016,23_ 09

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A Google Arts & Culture e a Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto colaboram numa parceria desde 2014 nesse âmbito, tendo, produzido o fabuloso vídeo (cujo link está infra) para as comemorações das Jornadas Europeias do Património.

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SABROSA: TERRITORY AND HERITAGE
“[…] this land is very mountainous for the most part and it is all taken advantage of, none goes to waste, particularly for the Douro. And the men of the land are so beneficent that they take the basket of earth on their backs up the highest cliffs […]”.

The cultural landscape of the Alto Douro Wine Region (ADWR) is listed as World Heritage (UNESCO, 2001). Although wine production dates back earlier, it was in the 18th century that it became the main crop in the region (UNESCO). Port wine became renowned worldwide for its quality. This long winegrowing tradition produced an exceptional cultural landscape which reflects its technological, social and economic development. As a cultural, evolving and living landscape, the ADWR was appreciated for its land use that, apart from representing the evolution of a wealth of material and immaterial culture, it comprises a type of landscape which illustrates representative moments in history, patent in its terraces, vineyards, settlements, chapels and pathways. It is also a unique testament of a tradition that still lives on but has been modernised, that uses and builds a new landscape, builds material heritage and preserves its immaterial legacy. The ADWR is indeed Living Cultural Heritage. The listing of the ADWR as World Heritage “involves the space and mankind and, consequently, the activity generated through a centuries-long relationship, which is constantly renovated by the soil, the cultivation of wine, wine production and a whole range of associated material and immaterial heritage assets” (CENTRO NACIONAL DE CULTURA, 2013: 46). The Québec Declaration on the preservation of the spirit of place (“Spiritu Loci”) (ICOMOS, 2008) emphasises the need “to safeguard and promote the spirit of places, namely their living, social and spiritual nature.” The ADWR materialises a way of life connected to the culture of vines and wine, which shape the monumental and humanised landscape, designing unique forms with its terraces; for its religious and civil heritage, which is only intelligible in its perfect relationship with the more vernacular culture. But above all, for the intangible heritage which bestows meaning, values and context on this cultural, evolving and living landscape. According to the Québec Declaration, “Spirit of place is defined as the tangible (buildings, sites, landscapes, routes, objects) and the intangible elements (memories, narratives, written documents, rituals, festivals, traditional knowledge, values, textures, colors, odors, etc.), that is to say the physical and the spiritual elements that give meaning, value, emotion and mystery to place” (ICOMOS, 2008). In the ADWR and in Sabrosa, the spirit of place persists, shaped by mankind in response to their most varied needs, part of “a continuously reconstructed process, which responds to the needs for change and continuity of communities” (ICOMOS, 2008, Art. 3). This exhibition intends to respond to one of the most innovative principals of the Québec Declaration, the use of new digital technologies to “to better preserve, disseminate and promote heritage of places and their spirit”(ICOMOS, 2008, Art. 7)

Fonte:https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhibit/7QKi4Qlq79p_LA