Historical Assets Analysis in Heritage Sites for Cultural Landscape Management. Case Studies of Aristocratic Estates from Italy, France and Spain

Although heritage landscape is one of the main titles that make up the landscape assessment, it has generally been overshadowed by rural development policies due to economic concerns. In recent years, even if more emphasis has been placed on this subject, especially with the European Landscape Convention, it is still difficult to create a common language. In this study, heritage landscape practices were examined on 3 aristocratic estate samples selected from among European countries, and heritage landscape analyzes prepared for these estates and their environment or estate networks were compared. Examples are Royal Residences of Savoy located in the north of Italy, Versailles Palace which is one of the most important royal estates in France and the surrounding urban and territories of the Palace, and finally Cultural Landscape of Aranjuez in the Madrid Region of Spain and the royal estate network to which it belongs. As each country has its own methods, there are also international criteria that it must comply with such as; Unesco and ELC. In these studies, which were created as a result of these criteria and countries' own practices and experiences, it was examined which landscape elements were evaluated and how these elements were displayed, and then, without going too deeply, how these studies reflected in the planning practice of countries were discussed. The historical landscape studies of these heritage sites, which are generally surrounded by rural territories, are also closely or remotely related to agricultural activities. In the last part of the research, the results of the "Designing Resilient Heritage Estate Landscapes for Borgo Cornalese" study conducted by TUDelft and Politecnico di Torino were shared. This work includes the work on a small hamlet in the Piemonte region in the north of Italy, where the royal estate and rural activities are combined. Although the scale is different from the examples in the first part of the research, this study is mostly a case study in which heritage landscape assessment practice has been experienced from the beginning to the end. In the continuation of this study, there is the idea of ​​creating development policies in the region.