Il ruolo delle attivita dell'ICOMOS per la formazione della nozione globale di Patrimonio culturale

The international nature of ICOMOS' actions in the context of knowledge and preservation, brings with it the contact between material productions of civilities far from each other both in time and space, the in-depth study of each one of these, the knowledge and assimilation of a wide spectrum of material cultures, techniques of building, images. This multicultural approach, since its very beginning, went along with a large debate over the theme of veracity, which is central in the Carta di Venezia, but interpreted in multiple ways over the years and in multiple places, leading to the development of a sort of worldwide catalogue of techniques and forms in which the human heritage is built. Without it, recovery and conservation operations would be unimaginable or, at best, vague or tempering, since they would not be carried according to techniques and methods proper of the artefacts. In this way it is built a net of relationships between local heritages that influences not only the culture of conservation but also its evolution, the major expression of which is the formation of the World Heritage List. Keywords Global cultural heritage, Technical traditions, Veracity preservation.