Open Access«Descubrir» y «descubrirse» en el románico: un ejemplo catalán de patrimonio de la humanidad
Author(s) -
Maria Garganté Llanes
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2182-9748
pISSN - 2182-1097
DOI - 10.21747/2182109711/cema6
Subject(s) - catalan , context (archaeology) , tourism , declaration , national identity , humanities , population , world heritage , baroque , geography , history , art , cartography , art history , archaeology , sociology , political science , demography , law , politics
The aim of this work is to present a case study on the identification between Romanesque art and national identity in Catalonia, an association that emerged in the framework of the emer‑ gence of national movements at the end of the 19th century, but that was recovered a century later when the process for the declaration of the Romanesque churches of the Boí Valley as a world heri‑ tage site by UNESCO began. The identification of the Romanesque with a «national art» is reinforced in this case because it is a Romanesque art located in the heart of the Pyrenees, with the strong symbolic value of the mountain as the «cradle» of the Catalan nation. We will analyse the World Heritage process and its effects in the context of a small territory, with a scarce population and dependent to a great extent on the seasonality of tourism.