Los paisajes culturales de la ciudad de Toledo: Los cigarrales: Dehesas, espacios irrigados, torres, cigarrales y trincheras: Dehesas, espacios irrigados, torres, cigarrales y trincheras

"The need to protect the physical and cultural environment in which we operate is the logical consequence of the dramatic transformations witnessed in recent years due to rapid urban development. This book seeks new ways to understand the natural and historic patrimony, increasing the evidences that we use to define our cultural heritage. The importance of this has been increasing in recent years leading to the creation of legal categories by the "European Landscape Convention". In Toledo, as a result of a peculiar historical evolution that has prevented the existence of large urban change until very recently, a number of outstanding cultural landscapes remain to be studied. However, and despite having all kinds of statements of local, national and international protection, an end seems closer than ever due to the approval of a new Municipal Management Plan proposing the construction of new neighbourhoods in places that most assumed were exempt from such Urban development. The opportunity remains to at least document the evolution of Toledo's cultural landscapes that have reached the early twenty-first century and these are studied here using different techniques and approaches, an ambitious research project starting with the Cigarrales, the area currently under greatest threat. This book summarizes archaeological activities carried out within the framework of the project "Cultural landscapes of Toledo: The Cigarrales" developed between 2010 and 2012 . This monograph is intended as a summary of the work, which provides important research, not only for understanding the Cigarralera area, but all urban landscapes."--Publisher's web site. Front Cover Title Page Copyright PRESENTACIÓN ÍNDICE LOS PAISAJES CULTURALES DE LA CIUDAD DE TOLEDO: LOS CIGARRALES. CRITERIOS DE ACTUACIÓN Y METODOLOGÍA DE TRABAJO EL CIGARRAL: DIFERENCIACIÓN, PERCEPCIÓN Y CARACTERIZACIÓN DE UN PAISAJE CULTURAL EL MEDIO FÍSICO DEL ÁREA CIGARRALERA Y SUS IMPLICACIONES GEOARQUEOLÓGICAS LAS PRIMERAS TRASFORMACIONES EN EL PAISAJE: EL POBLAMIENTO EN LA PREHISTORIA RECIENTE EN EL ÁREA CIGARRALERA LA EDAD DEL HIERRO EN EL ÁREA CIGARRALERA. EL NACIMIENTO DEL PAISAJE URBANO EL ÁREA CIGARRALERA EN LA ANTIGÜEDAD Y ALTA EDAD MEDIA. EVOLUCIÓN DE UN ESPACIO PERIURBANO RAÍCES MEDIEVALES DE LOS PAISAJES CULTURALES DE TOLEDO: LOS ESPACIOS IRRIGADOS DE ORIGEN ANDALUSÍ RAÍCES MEDIEVALES DE LOS PAISAJES CULTURALES DE TOLEDO: ESPACIOS Y PRÁCTICAS GANADERAS EN EL ÁREA DE CIGARRALES EL ORIGEN DEL CIGARRAL. UNA TIPOLOGÍA OLVIDADA. EL EJEMPLO DEL CIGARRAL DE MENORES LA EVOLUCIÓN DEL CIGARRAL A PARTIR DEL SIGLO XVI. ESTUDIOS SOBRE LA QUINTA DE MIRABEL Y LA DEHESA DE POZUELA LA EVOLUCIÓN DE LOS CIGARRALES ENTRE LOS SIGLOS XVIII AL XX. LOS CATASTROS DE 1751 Y 1936 LOS CIGARRALES DE TOLEDO EN LA GUERRA CIVIL: UN PAISAJE EFÍMERO This chapter brings together new archival sources and the results of recent archaeological prospections in order to explore urban landscape formation and its impact in cultural heritage.