02428nas a2200241   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001900043653001400062653002100076653002100097653001900118653001000137653002500147653001300172100002400185245010500209856015100314300001200465490000700477520168200484022002002166       2019                            d10aBasque country10aCatalonia10aHeritage science10aHistoric centres10aRural heritage10aSpain10aSpanish heritage law10aValencia1 aJuan Garcia-Esparza00aBeyond the intangible/tangible binary: an analysis of historic built environments in Valencia, Spain  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85115747851&doi=10.35638%2fIJIH.2019..14.015&partnerID=40&md5=8de6992f4e79b0b57b343a6bdb89b947  a123-1370 v143 aThis paper is a theoretical reflection aiming to understand how specific assets of intangible heritage are affected by contemporary discourse. This approach focuses on understanding the protection, preservation and reenactment of the intangible heritage found in Spanish rural landscapes. By an analysis of the global, national and regional laws, the paper addresses the need to approach the intangible, understanding the peculiarities of places that shape the scenery. The places and ‘Assets of Cultural Interest’ analysed in this paper are defined as geographic areas associated with a historic event, activity, or people, which exhibit cultural and aesthetic values. Following this definition, these landscapes are experiential cultural spaces, involving a complex set of elements, fixed, semi-fixed and unfixed. The way in which these traditions are viewed and experienced by locals and foreigners plays a central role in many intangible heritage studies, as does the way in which it reflects integrity, authenticity, attachment and a sense of identity, and how it anchors collective memory. It is the intention of this paper to emphasise the need to transfer the phenomenon of intangible heritage from the realm of a lived experience to the world of living places. In doing so some questions arise: Is the intangible cultural heritage contained in rural landscapes authentic? Is it simply the materiality, the past act or the past cultural process, or is it the way the intangible cultural heritage has been managed until today? Are we applying critical considerations to inner and outer perceptions, appropriations and transmigrations when managing cultural heritage.  a19753586 (ISSN)