Abstract
Religious heritage can act as a transmitter of the age-old values linked to the identity of a territory, while reflecting on the relationship between the religious value and the monumental value of a place. This reflection is based on the initial premise that at present there are elements related to the architectural heritage of the church that have wholly or in part lost their use value as places of worship. After introducing the relationship between tangible and intangible heritage at religious sites and the role of tourism helping in the preservation (or not) of these values, the current situation is analyzed through a case study. The case study is focused on the Catalonia Sacra project and analyses 325 religious heritage sites from the region of Catalonia, in the north-east of Spain. Several sets of data were collected referring to the monumental and architectural values of these places and also the religious use of them, among others, with the aim to compare the relationship between the monumental values and the religious use of these sites.
Highlights
Religious heritage can act as a transmitter of the age-old values linked to the identity of a territory, while reflecting on the relationship between the religious value and the monumental value of a place
After introducing the relationship between tangible and intangible heritage at religious sites and the role of tourism helping in the preservation of these values, the current situation is analyzed through a case study
We set out to reflect on how religious heritage can act as a transmitter of the age-old values linked to the identity of a territory, while reflecting on the relationship between the religious value and the monumental value of a place
Summary
We set out to reflect on how religious heritage can act as a transmitter of the age-old values linked to the identity of a territory, while reflecting on the relationship between the religious value and the monumental value of a place This reflection is on the basis of the initial premise that at present there are elements related to the architectural heritage of the church that have wholly or in part lost their value of use as places of worship. On the basis of an analysis of the relationships established between tangible and intangible assets, we set out to analyze possible variations in the transmission of heritage values varies and the extent to which this affects the management of these spaces in terms of tourism and religion. It is interesting to note that the most visited tourist attraction in Europe is Notre-Dame de Paris, with 13 million visitors a year, and that six other churches – Mont Saint-Michel, the SacreCoeur Basilica, and the cathedrals of Rheims, Chartres, Vezelay and Sainte-Chapelle – are among the 20 most visited places in France (Bywater 1994)
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