Zagadnienia ochrony dziedzictwa kulturowego krajobrazów
The Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Landscapes

Summary/Abstract: The national heritage of landscapes is one of the most valuable goods of the material legacy of national culture. Cultural landscape is of great social significance for the maintenance of the tradition of seeking national roots and identity. Over centuries, the landscape has been shaped in accordance with the characteristic traits of a given region, natural environment and national culture, and featured the diversity of ethnic cultures. Postwar years brought evolving landscape management inconsiderate and unattractive urban and rural development as well as economically unrelated forms of economic management. General confusion and a lack of identity of the site of the socalled little homeland call for a common awareness of the need for extending protection over entire areas of the cultural landscape in their conserved historic shape. Conservation practice, together with theoretical knowledge acquired during the protection of historic landscapes, paves the way to novel, world – wide trends in cultural heritage protection. It extends protection over not merely individual and collective complexes of historic property, but also moulded landscape areas, cementing the diversified conservation issues of the protection of all of its cultural ingredients in a coherent entity. Harmonious cultural and measured laid-out landscape, settlement landscape, industrial landscape and landscapes of linked natural and technological elements, battlefield landscapes and religious landscapes, with their individual, characteristic features, are a manifestation of national culture and tradition. To preserve the cultural heritage of landscapes it is necessary to devise mechanisms of sustainable development, in which the rank of culture, tradition and history of a region will equal its economic counterpart. Sustainable natural cultural and economic development increasingly resorts to the activation of tourism, involving the growing economic importance and dimension of historic landscapes.

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