ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the three dimensions in a case study that reunites very specific features that make case study probably unique for testing methods that could be used for other cases involving the elaboration and re-elaboration of local identities through cultural phenomena, when in contact with outsider identities. It provides the real possibilities of measuring identities or, better, the possibilities of identifying both the items and the hierarchy according to which of these items are assorted for a given community and a given time. The chapter focuses on the drawing and definition of indicators with different purposes, the referential paper being Torres Feijo. It declared by the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization as cultural heritage of humanity in 1993 and by the European Union as the first “European Cultural Itinerary”, which turns Santiago de Compostela in one major cultural destination.
