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The assessment of traditional components as part of the material cultural heritage is an essential element in the development of the cultural tourism. The south-western area of Romania, especially the Banat geographical area, on a rather extensive area, within the rural areas and small and medium-sized towns, faces a rather large economic problem. This was determined by the shift from a censored socialist economy to a free market economy, after which there has been registered a process of restricting the industria...

The aim of the research was to indicate the characteristics of traditional wooden buildings, determining its multi-faceted value and the role it plays in the contemporary structure of the city, on the example of Rzeszów (south-eastern part of Poland). The research methodology included field work and analysis of the city plan that is identification of existing traditional wooden residential buildings. A query was made of archival materials and studies on conservation documentation regarding the studied objects in t...

Artistic installation understood as art in a public space today constitutes a visually attractive method of healing and new characterization of aesthetically degraded places and landscapes, deprived of their cultural sense. Such works, created in the existing public space, by adding other contexts and symbolic meanings construct a completely new quality of a place, generate emotional sensations and experiences referring to the context of a place, the history of one’s ancestors and cultural heritage. An analysis of...

The European Commission has announced that Year 2018 is the European Year of Cultural Heritage /EYCH/. The undertaken activities are to boost the awareness of citizens as well as governments in terms of the creation of collective memory and identity of Europeans. The Commission’s assumption is the “abolition of borders”, or stepping beyond the territory of a given state or region and getting to know cultural heritage as the common good, fostering social integration. 600 years of history of the Radziwi??s, one of E...

On the European trail of the residences of the princely Radziwi?? family, reaching from Western Poland to the present Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine, there is one of the most important palaces, hailing from the times of the Renaissance. The palace in Nie?wie? in today’s Belarus was built on the ruins of the former fortifications by Miko?aj Krzysztof Radziwi?? (dubbed Sierotka, the Little Orphan) in the years 1582-1604. An Italian architect, Jan Maria Bernardoni, designed the palace. The significance of that resid...

This paper is devoted to the cultural heritage in the context of the possibility of its use to increase the value of economically under-invested areas of the eastern part of the Podlasie region. The paper consists of four parts. The first part contains general considerations about cultural heritage and discusses its structure. Cultural heritage is often expressed as either intangible or tangible cultural heritage. In the second part of this paper, the research area is described and the cultural heritage of this ar...

More than 300 fortified churches have been built, since the 12th century, by the Saxons established within the perimeter of the Seven Cities (Bra?ov, Sibiu, Sebe?, Cluj, Bistri?a, Media? and Sighi?oara) of the Siebenbürgen. Erected mainly to defend their small rural communities in front of the various threats of those times, the walls of the fortified churches are still standing to remember a history that, fortunately, has proven to be slightly milder than expected by their builders and represent nowadays an enorm...

Many cities, towns and villages around the world have adopted new Lighting Emitting Diode (LED) technology in order to save energy, operational and maintenance costs. While energy-efficient, these light sources have a critical effect on the appearance of historic sites at night – and the technology has unique properties and numerous inherent drawbacks that present challenges to decision makers as well as inexperienced lighting professionals. This paper uses practice-based research, critical analysis of literature,...

This paper presents an example of historical research for investigating a couple of old locks used for raising and lowering watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on one of the waterways of Milan (Italy), better known as “Navigli”. The “Navigli” canals wooden locks, which nowadays are preserved in the National Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci” of Milan (MUST), are considered an excellence of 15th century Lombard cultural heritage. A current historical analysis was mandatory gi...

Recent Polish architecture, since the political breakthrough of the year 1989, and definitely at least since the admission of the country into the European Union, has gained great momentum. The euphoria of the newly gained freedom has erupted in the building boom and brought about many astonishing phenomena, not always conducive to protection of cultural heritage, to put it mildly. There are, of course, highly controversial examples of new developments, including the likewise controversial decisions of the state c...

Background: Lublin is the economic and cultural capital of Eastern Poland, from ages being the bridge between western and eastern cultures of historical Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The golden era in the 16th century created even the Lublin Renaissance - an architectural style developed in the Lublin region of Poland. The current strategy of the city is summarised to be the “city of inspiration” – to build future with history and culture in mind. The primary goal of the paper is to explore the growth of the cre...

The watermark - as an inseparable element of antique paper and first form of proto-industrial logo - by virtue of its own meta-data repertoire regarding paper support since the 20th century, plays a fundamental role in heuristic investigation, imposing watermark studies among the auxiliary disciplines of history. Their study offered important information about the place and date of the production of a paper document with a low margin of error. This has led to an increasing use in the art history sector, in particu...