III WORKSHOP ON WINE-GROWING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES, WORLD HERITAGE SITES
Celebration of the 15th anniversary of the classification of Pico’s vineyard landscape as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

PRESENTATION

The landscape is a common good as a convergence of values and modes of action, myths that define the possibility of a shared project.
Hélène Hatzfeld

This III Workshop brings together the contribution of academic institutions and other public entities and aims to continue and develop the work of two workshops (Porto, October 13, 2017 and October 4, 2018) on the Douro and the island of Pico, with wine-growing cultural landscapes classified as World Heritage, promoted by CITCEM as part of an ongoing project on this transdisciplinary theme from a comparative perspective.

The case of wine-growing heritage, in which Portugal stands out on the world stage for its wide variety of traditions, technologies, landscapes and products, has been the focus of continued attention by several CITCEM researchers, who have produced significant studies on these territories, in various fields and themes, from populations to wine production techniques and cultures, historical evolution, economic, institutional and political contexts or systems of relationships.

As this is the first workshop of researchers, specialists, technicians and scholars, open to the interested public, to be held on the island of Pico, whose vineyard cultural landscape was recently awarded a prize for its public policies and good practices in enhancing this local-global common good, it is an important event that translates into a significant and meritorious change. It contributes to bringing the two wine-growing cultural landscapes of the Pico and the Douro closer together, the central object of research that has led to a wide exchange of ideas and debates, enriching sharing and progressively stimulating plural and comparative studies.

This event is part of the celebrations for the creation of the “Protected Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture”, its classification by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site and the award of the 2018 National Landscape Prize. This award from the Ministry of the Environment recognizes the measures implemented in the management and enhancement of this territory, which was under strong pressure from demographic abandonment, and which today is seen as a relevant resource and local development factor, through actions to rehabilitate the vineyards and the international promotion of this island’s wine with a cosmopolitan effect and a catalyst for wine tourism and nature tourism activities. With this award, the “Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture” has been selected to represent Portugal in the Council of Europe Landscape Award 2018, which aims to distinguish sustainable landscape protection, management and planning policies.

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