Landscape, Heritage and Tourism: Study in the Historic Center of Seville—Spain

Abstract

This chapter approaches the thematic of heritage landscapes and growing world tourism practices, taking as a case study, the historic center of Seville, with special emphasis on Triana. The main objective was to identify the main cultural heritage landscapes of the historical center of Seville and the pressures arising from the touristic industry. For this, the methodology involved readings, data collection, and geographical interpretations. In the survey of the primary data on the cultural heritage of Triana, there was an ethnographic description and participative observation of the Triana festivities (Holy Week, Santa Ana festivity, Flamenco show), and for the perceptual dimension, the leaders of the Northern Triana Neighborhood Association were interviewed. In the collection of the secondary data, the identification of the cultural heritage or assets of cultural interest (“Bien de Interés Cultural” – BIC) was used through the general catalog of the Andalusian historic heritage of the Council of Culture of the Junta of Andalucía (until 2016) and the tourism data were collected in the tourism council of Seville, referring to the years of 2017 and 2018. As a result, it is noted that most parts of the cultural heritage of the historic center fit in the typology of monuments legitimized by elites from different historical periods, which receive a massive amount of tourists, and in Triana, the ethnological heritages were a landscape potential, added to its history and symbolism, equally threatened.