Cultural landscape of Buçaco: the uniqueness of a touristic territory and leisure

Abstract

Over time, the Buçaco served as a backdrop to events in the ecclesiastical forum, military, royal and romantic. The symbolism representing the place carries is a reality to which we cannot remain indifferent. It is a legacy left to us and deserves to be protected and streamlined in the contexts of cultural landscape, leisure and tourist destination. The landscape is dynamic and therefore contains marks left by successive transformations of natural and human. The landscapes are also cultural heritage, because people identify with certain portions of territory, develop emotional ties with him and area becomes part of the subject. This landscape also has a strong ecological centrality, which, associated to the value of geographic space as memory, gives it a unique identity potential for the development of this region.