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Cultural assets of national interest. By type

Cultural assets of national interest. By types. Counties and Aran 2017
Monuments Historic sites Archaeological zones Paleontological zones Others Total
Alt Camp 41 0 0 0 0 41
Alt Empordà 134 4 4 0 1 143
Alt Penedès 56 0 5 1 0 62
Alt Urgell 38 0 8 1 0 47
Alta Ribagorça 20 6 0 0 1 27
Anoia 60 1 3 0 0 64
Aran 26 38 0 0 0 64
Bages 63 2 1 0 1 67
Baix Camp 40 1 10 0 1 52
Baix Ebre 48 1 6 0 0 55
Baix Empordà 131 9 6 0 0 146
Baix Llobregat 61 1 2 0 0 64
Baix Penedès 37 0 4 0 1 42
Barcelonès 87 3 5 0 3 98
Berguedà 44 2 0 2 0 48
Cerdanya 32 1 2 0 0 35
Conca de Barberà 51 3 14 0 0 68
Garraf 24 1 0 0 0 25
Garrigues 22 0 6 0 0 28
Garrotxa 53 4 2 0 0 59
Gironès 81 2 3 0 1 87
Maresme 62 0 10 0 0 72
Moianès 25 0 0 0 0 25
Montsià 22 0 7 0 0 29
Noguera 84 2 19 1 0 106
Osona 97 2 4 0 1 104
Pallars Jussà 41 0 9 3 0 53
Pallars Sobirà 30 2 0 0 0 32
Pla d'Urgell 10 0 0 0 0 10
Pla de l'Estany 34 1 3 0 1 39
Priorat 18 1 35 0 0 54
Ribera d'Ebre 26 0 6 0 0 32
Ripollès 43 2 1 0 0 46
Segarra 84 1 2 0 0 87
Segrià 45 1 7 0 1 54
Selva 45 3 2 1 2 53
Solsonès 44 0 0 0 0 44
Tarragonès 70 2 14 0 0 86
Terra Alta 24 2 1 0 1 28
Urgell 41 2 1 0 0 44
Vallès Occidental 43 1 2 0 0 46
Vallès Oriental 48 0 4 0 0 52
Catalonia 2,085 101 208 9 15 2,418
Source: Ministry of Culture.
Notes:
There are four historic buildings spanning two counties Bridge Devil Milany Castle, Red Tower, Castle Olivella.
There is one archaeological site that covers two counties: Via Capsacosta.

Last update: September 3, 2018.

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.