El sello de patrimonio europeo: Una acción entre cultura y ciudadanía

The European Heritage Label (SPE) is a cultural in itiative of the European Union supported by all its institutions ar ising under Article 167 TFEU.Unlike other actions, it uses the cultural heritage of the Member States to smooth the gap between the reality of the European Union and the perception that have its citizens. For this reason, a broad concept of cultural heritage is accepted and includes natural and urban sites, cultural landscap es, places of remembrance, cultural goods and objects and intangible heritage associated with a place and contemporary heritage. They must have a symbolic European value and must have played a significant role in the history and culture of Europe or the building of the Union. Its implementation reveals that the cultural component of the selected heritage is subsidiary to other more important objectives connected to the idea of citizenship, identity or European single market.