La restauración del patrimonio cultural en entornos rurales: un proyecto educativo integrador

Abstract

The rural heritage is the great forgotten of the cultural heritage sets of humanity, perhaps because of all that the rural entails: isolation, difficulties, lack of basic services, etcetera. However, the cultural richness that it drags, perhaps because it has remained less contaminated by the rapid changes that have always affected urban areas, is a representation of the history, thought and evolution of populations with their cultural manifestations, rites, knowledge, trades and natural environments that have survived to this day to teach us a lesson. For this reason, many years ago the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) began a project aimed at the comprehensive recovery of movable and immovable cultural property by destination in a rural area that for some time, as a result of a famous publication, it has been called “empty Spain”, because Spain, although it sounds strange to us, is a largely uninhabited country.