What is cultural heritage? Cultural heritage ("national heritage“ or just "heritage") is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations.

What is heritage? Tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artifacts). Intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).

Tangible culture 1

Tangible culture: buildings and monuments. 1.1.

The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. The Alhambra's Islamic palaces were built for the last Muslim kings in Spain and its court of the Nasrid dynasty. The Alhambra’s real beauty not only lies in the decorations of the complex, one of the most important in the Andalusí Art, but in the place where it was built and in its adaptation to the landscape.

It was built by Muhammad V in XIVth century. It was named after its famous fountain, a magnificent alabaster basin supported by the figures of twelve lions in White marble which is in the center of the court.

The Palacio de Generalife was the summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid Kings of the Emirate of Granada

The Eulogy of the Horizon is a concrete monument located in Gijón. It is the symbol of this town. This is one of the Works of Eduardo Chillida ( ).

Breathtaking sea views, in the background, the historic neighbourhood of Cimadevilla. And here you are! The concrete Eulogy, an eulogy which truly deserves this location and views. That was what Eduardo Chillida thought when he started this monument in One year later, this magnificent sculpture was placed in Gijón.

The monument represents the union between earth and heaven, we can see both of them while looking the horizon through the sculpture. At the same time, it shows us, the smallness of man and the greatness of the universe. If you don’t believe it, try to hug it. It is so vast that you cannot do it. It seems to be endless.

Tangible culture: objects. 1.2.

Bullfighting Cape is used by the bullfighters to attract the bulls.

Because of the humid and rainy weather in Asturias, clogs were traditionally the best type of footwear to walk along muddy paths and wet fields. They are used all over the Cantabrian coast.

Tangible culture: works of art. 1.3.

THE ASTURIAN PRE-ROMANESQUE ART is a singular artistic expression developed in the north of the Iberian Peninsula which was free of Muslim invaders from the Vth to the Xth centuries when was absorbed by the Romanesque Art which had just been introduced from France.

The church of St Mary at Mount Naranco on the slope of Mount Naranco, Oviedo. Ramiro I of Asturias ordered it to be built in the outskirt of the capital of his kingdom. It was completed in 848. Its style is called Asturian art or Ramirense art and it is included in the pre- romanesque art.

The church of St Michael at Mount Naranco on the slope of Mount Naranco, Oviedo. It is a chuch devoted to St Michael the Archangel. Ramiro the First gave the order to build this church, located at 300 steps of the palace that today we call Santa María. According to the Albeldense Chronicle is was the palatine chapel. At the beginning it was devoted both to St Mary and St Michael. It was declared World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1985.

THE VICTORY CROSS is a Latin cross held in the Holy Chamber of the Catedral of Oviedo. It was given by one King of Asturias in 908 AD to Cathedral of San Salvador (Oviedo). Since December 1990, the flag of modern Principality of Asturias bears the Victory Cross offset towards the hoist.

Diego Velázquez, 1656 LAS MENINAS –Spanish term for the Maids of Honour.

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez ( ) He was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. He is not only considered to be one of the leading Spanish painters but one of the most outstanding artist the world. Most of his Works are held in The Prado Museum (Madrid).

Pablo Picasso ( ) He was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He was the founder of cubism. He was also a printmaker, a ceramicist and a stage designer.

This mural can be divided into three parts. The central part comprises a dying horse and a woman with a lamp. A house in flames and a woman crying. The bull and the woman holding her dead child.