La atracción turística de un espacio mítico: peregrinación al cabo de Finisterre
This article analyzes the production of the “sense of place” of Finisterre - Cape situated in the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain) - and the way it is used to promote its namesake village as a tourist destination. The essay highlights the global and local factors as well as the plurality of s...
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Instituto de Investigación Social y Turismo
2009-04-01
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| description | This article analyzes the production of the “sense of place” of Finisterre - Cape situated in the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain) - and the way it is used to promote its namesake village as a tourist destination. The essay highlights the global and local factors as well as the plurality of social actors that intervene in this process and their different interests and actions. Moreover, it shows the role played in this by the mythic narrative created by the forerunners of the Galician nationalist tradition who identified Galicia as an Atlantic Land´s End. This narrative allowed actors to propose this village as the goal of the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostela so that it could benefit from the tourist promotion of Galicia largely based on the cultural heritage of the Pilgrim´s Way. The meaning of this place today is related to a secularised experience of the pilgrimage and to the pilgrims ritual practices inspired in the aforesaid myth. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-db12d2b5ac1942c4966e15e14cb5262b2022-12-22T01:34:43ZengInstituto de Investigación Social y TurismoPASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural1695-71212009-04-0172163178La atracción turística de un espacio mítico: peregrinación al cabo de FinisterreHerrero, NievesThis article analyzes the production of the “sense of place” of Finisterre - Cape situated in the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain) - and the way it is used to promote its namesake village as a tourist destination. The essay highlights the global and local factors as well as the plurality of social actors that intervene in this process and their different interests and actions. Moreover, it shows the role played in this by the mythic narrative created by the forerunners of the Galician nationalist tradition who identified Galicia as an Atlantic Land´s End. This narrative allowed actors to propose this village as the goal of the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostela so that it could benefit from the tourist promotion of Galicia largely based on the cultural heritage of the Pilgrim´s Way. The meaning of this place today is related to a secularised experience of the pilgrimage and to the pilgrims ritual practices inspired in the aforesaid myth.http://www.pasosonline.org/Publicados/7209/PS0209_3.pdfCultural heritageTourismPilgrimageRural developmentCultural identity. |
| spellingShingle | Herrero, Nieves La atracción turística de un espacio mítico: peregrinación al cabo de Finisterre PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural Cultural heritage Tourism Pilgrimage Rural development Cultural identity. |
| title | La atracción turística de un espacio mítico: peregrinación al cabo de Finisterre |
| title_full | La atracción turística de un espacio mítico: peregrinación al cabo de Finisterre |
| title_fullStr | La atracción turística de un espacio mítico: peregrinación al cabo de Finisterre |
| title_full_unstemmed | La atracción turística de un espacio mítico: peregrinación al cabo de Finisterre |
| title_short | La atracción turística de un espacio mítico: peregrinación al cabo de Finisterre |
| title_sort | la atraccion turistica de un espacio mitico peregrinacion al cabo de finisterre |
| topic | Cultural heritage Tourism Pilgrimage Rural development Cultural identity. |
| url | http://www.pasosonline.org/Publicados/7209/PS0209_3.pdf |
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