Vernacular architecture in the modern concept of cultural heritage

The nineteen seventies and eighties were particularly fruitful years in Europe and in the wider world, with regard to the evolution of the very concept of cultural heritage. Both UNESCO and the Council of Europe established Conventions or International Treaties (3) that established new categories of cultural heritage, and amongst these new categories is one with its own personality known as the vernacular heritage. This concept has been strengthened by the Convention of Florence or European Landscape Convention (4), the first International Treaty devoted to the management of the landscape, with which the vernacular heritage is so intensely and profoundly linked, in that overall unity that cultural features nowadays possess.