Valoración patrimonial del ferrocarril de Antioquia como itinerario cultural:

Apropiaciones y significaciones.

Abstract

Exercising the asset identification and cataloging of cultural routes, going beyond the historical facts, evidence and appraisal that are derived from both the official authorized discourse and the recommendations for identification and cataloging of the International Committee on Cultural Routes, there is a pending task that has to do with the versions of identity, feelings of ownership and meaning that are expressed in the voices of the main characters, this has left a void in the theoretical and methodological processes of recognition and activation of these assets. This problem has been contrasted on the stage of one of the most representative trails of Antioquia’s Railroad, now in disuse, and distributed amongst geographical territories of the central Colombian Andes (The Nus Valley and The Valley of Porce), after prior historiographical asset evaluation study, as territory structuring system and cultural route, whose dynamics of settlement emerged exnovo, from system layout and implementation, and now share cultural landscapes and a live railroad memory, full of imaginaries and new meanings. This research offers new forms of recognition for cultural routes that have enriched the landscape of cultural creations and representations beyond the official discourse, this time from the local evaluation level that is built in community on the dialectic between habited places of memory, as prints, and axiological and existential needs of men, as dreams. It highlights the heritage discourse that has been socially legitimized, with identity versions as cultural routes keys, in particular, a universe of shared group values (ICOMOS, 2008), which constitutes an early strategy of asset management, increasingly inclusive and dialogic with communities, in the end, guarantors of its management, protection and sustainability.