Cultura e património, paradigmas de desenvolvimento

The author begins by defining what is meant by culture and then presents the stakes in culture and heritage as economic alternatives within depressed and abandoned interior. The article points to the examples of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the engravings of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, the theatrical village of Campo Benfeito, in the Serra do Montemuro and the Fluviário in the village of Mora, as investments that have changed the nature of these regions and made these places marshalling as poles of attraction. It ends by proposing the creation of cultural areas, citing as an example to implement immediately the Cistercian cultural area on the left bank of the River Douro.