ABSTRACT
Recently, a vast literature has been published on the changes in the concept of landscape and on its polysemy. What we must point out here is the fact that today the concept includes both a physical – material understanding and a perceptive one, its broader and more complex sense (cultural and sensorial). It involves the whole territory – i.e. all spaces (rural, urban, peri-urban or natural) regardless of their quality (outstanding, ordinary, degraded) – as a physical object but also as the object of the ‘cultural look’ people cast on places, even places with no human presence.
