Historical artistic heritage before cultural tourism: a critical approach from the historiography of art

Abstract

The present text tries to be a series of reflections concerning difficult relations between the historical artistic heritage and the tourism. First, we will do some considerations on the question of the definition of a cultural tourism. Later we will happen to treat problematic related to the antinomies that sublie in the debate of these relations since are that of the leisure forehead culture, history and innovation, tourist and resident in the environment of historical city and the museum. All this from the perspective of a reconsideration of the notion of guardianship of the monumental heritage.