The Roman City of Los Bañales: picking up good vibrations by managing cultural h

Since 2008, the Uncastillo Foundation has been developing a comprehensive heritage management project in the Roman city of Los Bañales de Uncastillo, one of the most monumental in northern Spain. Relying on intense research activity –with annual archaeological prospecting and excavation campaigns– Los Bañales has become, in recent years, a model of integration of the social environment in the project, committing it to its safeguarding and revitalization and, also, in management culture of the archaeological enclave that, beyond research, which nurtures this cultural content management, has been able to develop as many initiatives as possible to keep heritage alive as a resource for future development.
A comprehensive heritage management program has been articulated based on three pillars: the recovery of that heritage, its cultural management and its use as a resource for territorial development.
The Roman city is a living space, with dynamization activities that are a source of resources for the sustainability of the project as a space of heritage possibilities that break with the idea that archaeological projects only live short research cycles. The planning of thematic days and open doors, of conferences and congresses as transfer and benchmarking spaces and the promotion of events and publications has allowed society to reunite with a site that was in a regrettable state of abandonment in 2008.