Landscape and Heritage? on a relationship that needs to be nuanced.

Abstract

Zambrano argued that to think is to decipher feelings. Since what explains the success of landscape and heritage has sentimental roots, here we will try to elaborate a kind of reflection on the feelings involved in both. Before showing how we can think about landscape as heritage from these sentiments, I will begin by referring to two emotions that gloss the eternal issue of landscape quite well. I am referring, on the one hand, to the attachment to the known place - topophilia - and, on the other, to the feeling of wonder at the new and unknown - neophilia. Only after presenting both will we understand how, in our opinion, it is appropriate to think of landscape as heritage.