New Technologies for Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Spain

Resumen

Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Spain faces problems which may have common features with those occurring in other European countries. This is a short review of a personal selection done by the author of the latest studies and research done in Spain, related to the Protection of Heritage, as a part of the European Project ARCCHIP-ARIADNE 12, European Commission - DG Research ICA1-CT-2000-70013. How New Technologies have been already used in Spain is also explained and how they could be used in the future to maintain our Heritage, to preserve its historical and artistic values and to increase the involvement of younger generations in the process of finding the necessary solutions to integrate it in a New idea of European Heritage, as well as finding ways to integrate our past in our everyday way of life without destroying it.