Paper short abstract:

I will analyze the processes of heritagization in the city of Lugo during the last 20 years, following the criteria of the Unesco listings, and through the comparison with the city ethnographically portrayed 20 years ago.

Paper long abstract:

In the last decades, the city of Lugo experienced important urban transformations and in its definition as a city, guided by European and international guidelines that add tourism activity to its functions as capital of services at a provincial level. The Declaration of the roman wall as heritage of humanity, the recognition of the Primitive Way in its passage through the city and of the surroundings of the Cathedral and the old town, have led to the mobilization of new networks and associative movements that go beyond the specific consequences of Unesco's support. It is appropriate to take into account all these new dynamics on the basis of the Lugo described in an ethnography written 20 years ago.