All rights reservedMoreira, Maria da GraçaCrespo, José Luís2024-10-232024-10-232016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2110Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southUrban space is the stage of several cultural expressions, permanent or periodic that set practices with most urban or most rural character, according to the dimension of the agglomeration and to the strength that those traditions have as a mark of a certain way of living. Rural society organizes, traditionally, its festivities with expressions of dexterity similar to the daily activities, with the objective of valorising its members. Some of these activities are presented in the urban centres that polarize them and that, despite being presently completely urbanised, maintain with its rural surroundings strong cultural ties, as part of its population has its roots in the near rural areas, as it is quite frequent in the process of urban development in the last decades. The researched activities can be considered as Cultural Heritage, as: “every property that, being a witness with value of civilization or of culture, that carry relevant cultural interest, must be object of a special protection e appreciation” and all the “intangible goods that constitute structuring parts of the Portuguese identity and of its collective memory”. The intangible cultural heritage of rural areas tends to disappear when the territory is urbanized and lifestyles changed, reducing the daily activities that justified them.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject888-890