ABSTRACT
On the threshold of the 21st century, it has become an increasingly complex process to define and classify certain geographical spaces as marginal. This complexity is due, in part, to the fact that in the West marginality has acquired an increasingly mobile nature, gradually severing links with the strictly physical framework of the territory, due to improvements in communications. Today, the concept of marginality is more closely concerned with social and cultural characteristics, which lead to the appearance of new marginal spaces. As occurs in most cases, the perception of a territory is a function of our actual knowledge of this territory. If we accept the general idea that marginal areas are not static (Majorai and Sánchez-Aguilera, 1998), the difference between the reality and the perception of a territory will become greater as its socio-economic dynamism grows.
