ABSTRACT
Senses of places are the products of the creative imagination of the individual and of society, while identities are not passively received but are ascribed to places by people. Senses of place must be related to senses of time if only because places are in a continuous state of becoming. The key linkage in this process is heritage. Heritage is one fundamental element in the shaping of these power networks and in elaborating this 'identifiable but diffused' concept of power. It is a medium of communication, a means of transmission of ideas and values and a knowledge that includes the material, the intangible and the virtual. Heritage is simultaneously knowledge, a cultural product and a political resource. Inevitably, therefore, the past as rendered through heritage also promotes the burdens of history, the atrocities, errors and crimes of the past which are called upon to justify the atrocities of the present.
