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Cultural assets of national interest. By type

Cultural assets of national interest. By types. Counties and areas 1998
Monuments Zones arqueològiques Conjunts històrics Altres (1) Total
Declarats Pendents de declaració Declarades Pendents de declaració Declarats Pendents de declaració Declarats Pendents de declaració Declarats Pendents de declaració
Alt Camp 33 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 34 1
Alt Empordà 127 3 3 0 3 1 0 0 133 4
Alt Penedès 48 1 4 0 0 0 0 1 52 2
Alt Urgell 29 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 30 8
Alta Ribagorça 19 1 0 0 6 0 1 0 26 1
Anoia 59 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 60 3
Bages 64 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 67 1
Baix Camp 22 1 4 0 1 0 1 0 28 1
Baix Ebre 47 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 51 0
Baix Empordà 113 2 2 0 6 3 0 0 121 5
Baix Llobregat 45 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 47 0
Baix Penedès 34 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 35 1
Barcelonès 65 8 3 0 0 0 1 1 70 9
Berguedà 36 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 36 5
Cerdanya 30 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 32 2
Conca de Barberà 44 1 11 0 0 0 0 0 57 1
Garraf 20 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 1
Garrigues 19 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 24 3
Garrotxa 49 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 53 3
Gironès 70 3 0 0 1 1 1 0 72 4
Maresme 37 8 2 4 0 0 0 0 39 12
Montsià 21 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 27 0
Noguera 73 12 7 0 2 2 0 0 81 14
Osona 91 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 93 3
Pallars Jussà 37 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 38 2
Pallars Sobirà 28 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 1
Pla d'Urgell 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2
Pla de l'Estany 33 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 34 1
Priorat 14 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 16 3
Ribera d'Ebre 16 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 21 0
Ripollès 41 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 42 3
Segarra 72 8 1 0 1 0 0 0 74 8
Segrià 38 8 4 0 0 0 0 0 42 8
Selva 41 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 44 2
Solsonès 31 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 6
Tarragonès 59 0 7 1 2 0 0 0 68 1
Terra Alta 14 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 18 2
Urgell 28 14 0 0 1 0 0 0 29 14
Val d'Aran 14 11 0 0 0 38 0 0 14 49
Vallès Occidental 33 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 34 0
Vallès Oriental 51 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 52 2
Catalunya 1,751 124 79 13 44 49 8 2 1,882 188
Source: Ministry of Culture.
Note: (1) Inclou jardins i llocs històrics, zones paleontològiques i d'interès etnològic.

Last update: May 25, 2021.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Others (Cultural assets)
In this section, we include historical gardens and historical sites, paleontological areas or areas of ethnological interest.
Cultural assets of national interest (BCIN)
Assets that enjoy the currently valid legal protection. They are classified as: historic sites, historic gardens, historic monuments, archaeological zones and paleontological zones.
Historic sites
Group of assets, either continuous or disperse, that constitute a coherent and delimited unit and an entity in its own right, even though each of these individually may not offer the relevant values.
Historical garden
Delimited space that is the result of the ordering of natural elements by man and that may include fabricated structures.
Historic place
Natural site where there is a group of assets that form part of a coherent unit for historic or cultural reasons and that are associated to events or records of the past, and which contain man-made works of historic or technical value.
Historical monument
Construction or other type of material work produced by human activity and that configures a unique and outstanding unit.
Archaeological zone
Place where there are remains of human intervention that is only susceptible to being studied in depth using archaeological methodology, whether found on the surface or underground or underwater.
Paleontologic zone
Place where there are fossilised remains that constitute a coherent unit and that are an entity in their own right, even if each individual part of this zone is not of relevant value.

Methodological aspects

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Law 9/1993, of September 30, on Catalan Cultural Heritage, created the figures of the Register of Cultural Assets of National Interest (BCIN) and the Catalogue of Assets of Catalan Cultural Heritage (Minister of Culture), in order to provide special recognition and protection to assets that, as well as having the inherent characteristics of the assets pertaining to cultural heritage (and therefore forming part of the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage) meet certain conditions or values that increase their cultural significance and importance. These assets are considered protected and outstanding and must be included in the BCIN Register or in the Catalogue of Catalan Cultural Heritage.

The BCIN Register must include the most relevant assets of Catalan cultural heritage. Documentary heritage forms part of its section on chattel, which can be registered by being declared individual assets (documentary units) or collections (archives, collections in the strictest sense or other groups of documents). Declaration as cultural assets of national interest requires a report to be produced beforehand that must contain "a clear and accurate description of the asset or assets", historical reports, graphic documentation and a detailed report about how well conserved it is.

As of 2021, the territorial disaggregation of the data is Catalonia.