Autor(es):
Leite, Ana Filipa Rodrigues Moreira 
Data: 2013
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6170
Origem: Repositório da UTL
Assunto(s): cultural landscape; patrimony; romantism; tourism; conservation
Descrição
Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia The Cultural Landscape of Sintra, classified in 1995 by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, is the testimony
of a unique symbiosis between Nature and Man.
The specific microclimate and lush vegetation gives to Serra de Sintra the bucolic spirit that promoted,
since long times, its occupation by different cultures: From Neolithic vestiges to the medieval Suntria;
convents and hermitages scattered throughout the solitude of the Sierra, the establishment of the royal
court and nobles in their recreational farms, harmoniously arranged amidst the massive granite blocks and
the lush vegetation brought from various parts of the world. The Landscape of Sintra was built under
artistic and literary influences, being even today considered as a reference of the expression of the
Romanticism, which influenced the Europe of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This unit, also integrating the Natural Park of Sintra-Cascais, is characterized as well as a rich area, but
highly sensitive. The current urban pressure and constant threats to the preservation of this site, including
the forest area, motivated the development of the present research, in order to the pursuit of conservation
of this landscape of incomparable value, as well as its maintenance as a classified heritage of UNESCO.
As the main objective, we intend to develop a proposal for a new Management Plan for this Cultural
Landscape, seeking a coherent development from the standpoint of tourism and economic development.
With the design of strategies aiming the protection of the site, by leveraging their capital gains,
dissemination and transfer of knowledge to the communities, the maintenance and the perpetuation of
cultural identity, the ecological values and the biodiversity of the Sierra will be assured, thus allowing the
full experience in this heritage
