Intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development in the Douro Demarcated Region (Northern Portugal): the cases of Cambres and Parada do Bispo

Título: Intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development in the Douro Demarcated Region (Northern Portugal): the cases of Cambres and Parada do Bispo; Espaço e Economia. Revista brasileira de geografia econômica; Universidade do Porto
Autor: Helena Pina
Assunto: Desenvolvimento; Patrimônio; festa; rural; sustentabilidade
Abstract: When talking of rural spaces, we usually mean peripheral areas with a range of problems, but whose potential and dynamics for revitalisation are evident. This is the case of the Douro Demarcated Region (DDR), home to an idyllic landscape of countless terraces on slopes laden with vines as well as a unique architectural, human and cultural heritage. Nevertheless, the obstacles to its development escalate, ranging from the environmental and landscape structure to the economic, social and cultural. In this paper, from a wide range of problems afflicting the region, we intend to focus on the cultural component, particularly the intangible one, highlighting the strategic role of the popular festivities and pilgrimages in the rural sustainable development.
issue: 7
Date: 2015
Língua: en
doi: 10.4000/espacoeconomia.2100
issn: 2317-7837
título curto: Intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development in the Douro Demarcated Region (Northern Portugal)
uri: http://journals.openedition.org/espacoeconomia/2100