2. What is cultural heritage?
Cultural heritage ("national
heritage“or just "heritage") is the
legacy of physical artifacts and
intangible attributes of a group or
society that are inherited from past
generations, maintained in the
present and bestowed for the
benefit of future generations.

3. What is heritage?
Tangible culture
(such as
buildings, monuments, l
andscapes, books, work
s of art, and artifacts).
Intangible culture
(such as
folklore, traditions, lang
uage, and knowledge),
and natural
heritage (including
culturally significant
landscapes, and
biodiversity).

4. Tangible
culture
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5. Tangible
culture:
buildings and
monuments.
1.1.

7. • The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex
located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.
• The Alhambra's Islamic palaces were built for the
last Muslim kings in Spain and its court of
the Nasrid dynasty.
• The Alhambra’s real beauty not only lies in the
decorations of the complex, one of the most
important in the Andalusí Art, but in the place
where it was built and in its adaptation to the
landscape.

8. • It was built by
Muhammad V in
XIVth century. It was
named after its
famous fountain, a
magnificent alabaster
basin supported by
the figures of twelve
lions in White marble
which is in the center
of the court.

9. • The Palacio
de Generalife
• was the
summer palace
• and country
estate of
the Nasrid Kings
of the Emirate of
Granada

10. THE EULOGY OF THE HORIZON

11. • The Eulogy of the
Horizon is a concrete
monument located in
Gijón. It is the symbol
of this town. This is
one of the Works of
Eduardo Chillida
(1924-2002).

12. • Breathtaking sea views, in the background, the
historic neighbourhood of Cimadevilla. And here
you are! The concrete Eulogy, an eulogy which
truly deserves this location and views. That was
what Eduardo Chillida thought when he started
this monument in 1989. One year later, this
magnificent sculpture was placed in Gijón.

13. • The monument represents the union between
earth and heaven, we can see both of them while
looking the horizon through the sculpture. At the
same time, it shows us, the smallness of man and
the greatness of the universe. If you don’t believe
it, try to hug it. It is so vast that you cannot do it. It
seems to be endless.

14. Tangible
culture:
objects.
1.2.

15. Bullfighting Cape is used by
the bullfighters to attract
the bulls.

17. Because of the humid and
rainy weather in
Asturias, clogs were
traditionally the best type
of footwear to walk along
muddy paths and wet
fields. They are used all
over the Cantabrian
coast.

18. Tangible
culture: works
of art.
1.3.

19. • THE ASTURIAN PRE-ROMANESQUE ART is
a singular artistic expression developed in
the north of the Iberian Peninsula which
was free of Muslim invaders from the Vth
to the Xth centuries when was absorbed by
the Romanesque Art which had just been
introduced from France.

20. The church of St Mary at Mount
Naranco on the slope of Mount
Naranco, Oviedo.
Ramiro I of Asturias
ordered it to be built in
the outskirt of the capital
of his kingdom. It was
completed in 848. Its style
is called Asturian art or
Ramirense art and it is
included in the pre-
romanesque art.

21. The church of St Michael at Mount
Naranco on the slope of Mount
Naranco, Oviedo.
It is a chuch devoted to St Michael
the Archangel. Ramiro the First gave
the order to build this church,
located at 300 steps of the palace
that today we call Santa María.
According to the Albeldense
Chronicle is was the palatine chapel.
At the beginning it was devoted both
to St Mary and St Michael.
It was declared World Heritage site
by UNESCO in 1985.

22. • THE VICTORY CROSS is a Latin cross held
in the Holy Chamber of the Catedral of
Oviedo.
• It was given by one King of Asturias in
908 AD to Cathedral of San Salvador
(Oviedo). Since December 1990,
the flag of modern Principality of
Asturias bears the Victory Cross offset
towards the hoist.

23. Diego Velázquez, 1656
LAS MENINAS
–Spanish term for the Maids of Honour.

24. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
(1599-1660)
He was a Spanish painter
of the Baroque period. He
is not only considered to
be one of the leading
Spanish painters but one
of the most outstanding
artist the world.
Most of his Works are held
in The Prado Museum
(Madrid).

26. Pablo
Picasso
(1881-1973)
• He was a Spanish painter and
sculptor.
• He was the founder of cubism.
• He was also a printmaker, a
ceramicist and a stage designer.

27. This mural can be divided into
three parts.
The central part comprises a dying horse
and a woman with a lamp.
A house in flames
and a woman
crying.
The bull and the
woman holding
her dead child.