Territórios-museu em espaços marginais. Valorização e interpretação do património cultural do Baixo Guadiana

Abstract

This paper aims at presenting some proposals for the creation of a “Territorial Museum” in the peripheral areas of the Portuguese-Spanish borderlands of the Guadiana and Chanza rivers (PortugalSpain), as well as topics for its interpretation. This European internal border is the oldest and the largest in Europe, which configured unique landscapes and heritage that can be interpreted and enhanced from the point of view of Global History. Borderlands are examined from four different perspectives: as places occupied for surveillance; as border identities generators; as territories with a rich archaeological heritage that is a consequence of contacts and interactions, and as historical landscapes that can be enhanced and interpreted holistically. This paper presents as its main result the creation of proposals for heritagization and musealization of the Portuguese-Spanish border landscape, as well as for a creative management focused on the sustainable development of the local communities in peripheral areas