Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Signes-Pont, Maria Teresa
• Cortés-Plana, José Juan
• Boters-Pitarch, Joan
• Mora-Mora, Higinio

Titel

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Rural Development: The Case of Tàrbena, Spain

Ist Teil von

• Heritage, 2022-12, Vol.5 (4), p.3010-3031

Ort / Verlag

Basel: MDPI AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The population decline of small villages is a very serious problem for our society. This situation is not easy to reverse. The challenge is to generate consensus among the inhabitants of small villages to develop projects that have both a link with social and cultural heritage and the aid of the regional and local authorities. This framework can be successful when it also has the capability to provide new lines of development growing from this initial seed that can attract new inhabitants. In this paper, we present research that follows these requirements. Our proposal is based on a traditional agriculture resource, which is the art of building dry stone walls. We study the case of Tàrbena (642 inhabitants in the province of Alicante, Spain). Stone artifacts are recovered: some of them are still useful for agriculture, and others are cataloged and transformed into a product for cultural tourism. This project is expected to develop local, manual, and specialized work through the development of workshops, crafts, and small businesses. This will provide more income for the municipality and the private sector and more opportunities to attract new inhabitants.