From scenic beauties to heritage territory

The paper focuses on the evolution of cultural landscape from the early 20th century and remarks as the way of considering cultural landscape has deeply changed through the time. As in an early stage, cultural landscape was considered merely from its aesthetical point of view, in more recent times many more components have been take in consideration. The evolution of the legislation framework and the landscapes protected by law are provided as a proof validating the thesis. In the conclusions the papers describes few cultural landscape in order to provide a clear example of what is meant today by the term cultural landscape.