Cultural landscapes in Banat: Identification methodology and transfer of knowledge.

The project Cultural Landscapes in Banat aims to identify and inventory the cultural landscapes in the Romanian Banat area and to associate them with a new working tool - Heritage Value Areas (HVA). Through the totality of the proposed actions, the aim is to improve the way heritage and cultural landscape is known, understood, interpreted and managed. Past ideas in which heritage conservation largely consists of classifying individual elements scattered across the territory are not enough. The likelihood that they will survive, be used and valued is low. All elements of heritage value, in well identified areas, can be connected and supported by a common context, whose rules and values are known and accepted. The research has started in 2020, based on biographical and in - site studies, made by the multidisciplinary team in previous years. Until now a first map of the division of Banat into landscape units and sub-units has been produced; a methodological guide - with the methodology proposed in the project for the identification of cultural landscapes - has been finalized and published online; and an online website containing information on these investigations has been launched. The main conclusions of the study are: the inconsistency with which the concept of cultural landscape in Romania is presented and interpreted, but also the lack of knowledge about it; the existence of unaltered areas in Banat from a landscape perspective; the increase of interest in this concept; and the existence of an important documentation database in terms of volume and quality on which this project is partially based. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]