Architectural and intangible heritage in Andalusia: the impact of tourism after UNESCO’s inscriptions [Póster]

Architectural and intangible heritage in Andalusia: the impact of tourism after UNESCO’s inscriptions INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ARCHITECTS UIA INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON OVERTOURISM IN HISTORICAL CITIES EXHIBITION. MEMBER SECTION: SPAIN. This poster has been developed under the R&D project HAR2016-79788-P entitled Urban Heritage Characterization and Cultural Tourism Model in Medium-Sized Cities. Potentialities and Challenges for its Internationalization: Inner Baetica. It is funded by the competitive call of the State Plan 2013-2016 Excellence - R&D Projects of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Government of Spain. INTRODUCTION The graphics display the analysis of the impact of tourism in the historic cities included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List located in Andalusia (Spain). Cities with heritage manifestations inscribed in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity have been considered too. With these two groups, an international and global perspective of heritage tourism is achieved. Furthermore, they all share an inner condition, averted from coastal tourism problems and dynamics. METHODOLOGY The study has been focused in terms of occupation and redesign of public space, the architectural requalification attained regarding to infrastructure needs, hotels and touristic lodgements. Additionally, massive touristification phenomena –both seasonally and annually– and gentrification by the substitution of the traditional inhabitants in some urban areas. Particularly, the incidence of tourism in listed UNESCO perimeters and their buffer zones has been evaluated in three big-sized Andalusian cities. UNESCO INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE The analysis has been complemented by the two contributions of intangible heritage listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Andalusia –only the ones associated to specific cities, one large and one mediumsized–: the Fiesta of the patios in Cordova (inscribed in 2012) and the Tamboradas drum-playing rituals of Baena (inscribed in 2018). CULTURAL TOURISM IMPACT These UNESCO inscriptions have multiplying effect of cultural tourism. As a consequence, these cities experiment a scenario of problems and solutions in a globalised context, undergone in their urban spaces, building uses and the infrastructure demands. Research Team: Mosquera Adell, Eduardo; Pérez Cano, María Teresa; Sánchez Fuentes, Domingo; Aladro Prieto, José Manuel; Royo Naranjo, Lourdes; Del Espino Hidalgo, Blanca. Work Team: Costa Rosado, Ana; López Bravo, Celia; Molina Liñán, Mercedes; Mosquera Pérez, Clara Teresa; Navas Carrillo, Daniel; Navarro de Pablos, Javier; Ostos Prieto, Javier; Rodríguez Lora, Juan Andrés. Saint Louis Church, Seville Renaissance Ensemble, Ubeda Romeral Dolmen, Antequera Alhamabra, Granada Royal Alcazar, Seville Overcrowed streets, Seville Jewry, Cordova ANDALUSIAN WORLD HERITAGE The cities object of the study are the following six: Granada, Cordova, Seville, Ubeda, Baeza and Antequera. Granada and Cordova hold both UNESCO inscriptions dated in 1984 and extended in 1994; the last one with the complementary inclusion of the Caliphate City of Medina Azahara in 2018. The case of Seville includes three elements inscribed in 1987: Cathedral, Alcazar and Archivo de Indias, with a minor boundary modification in 2010. Three medium-sized cities –according to the urban scales defined by regional planning– end the study, with the two Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Ubeda and Baeza (inscribed in 2003) and Antequera, with its Dolmens Site recently inscribed in 2016.