Periódico: Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research
Fonte: Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research; Vol 3 No 3 (2020): Journal of Tourism and Heritage Research; 34-50
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Resumo: To enhance cultural heritage, to guarantee its preservation and to leverage it for the future are the three main and essential goals for an integral management of cultural heritage, even more so if what is involved is the archaeological kind. The growing number of interpretative models available for understanding the complex cultural meaning of heritage, plus the development of new formulas for professional archaeological practice, offer an adequate context in which to reflect on how universities, as teaching and research institutions, can contribute to revitalise archaeological sites in terms of research, culture and tourism. These reflections are a result of several years of experience that the University of Navarre has gained in supporting or leading the archaeological projects in the ancient Roman cities of Los Bañales de Uncastillo (Saragossa) and Santa Criz de Eslava (Navarre). Accordingly, this paper inquiries into how universities can perform open and innovative research and use heritage in a way that effectively revitalises it, as an educational setting and pretext that, needless to say, goes a long way to protecting, preserving and promoting archaeological heritage.
