Resumo
Between 1960 and 1980, some Spanish landscapes, because of their desert condition, functioned as replicas of the epic Far West's landscapes. These landscapes, which could be considered as alienated, constitute a material legacy that, in some cases, have continued to function as a tourist attraction to this day. In other cases, such as the one we want to show, the landscapes have suffered a process of abandonment and ruin.But in our case study (the setting for a mythical movie, built in a natural scenario) the monumentality of the replica made it stand the test of time, until a group of people took up restore the site, achieve its recognition as a Heritage Asset in the official inventory and turn it into a living space, through a micro-patronage project. This leads us to rethink our concept of authenticity, since a "false" materiality has been replaced by a new one,product of the social re-appropriation of space, and, therefore, apparently more"authentic" than the original. It seems to be the famous sentence of Guy Debord ("In a world that really has been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood") but with some hope, since this investment takes place in a context (the rural and deep Spain) that suffers from a process of decline for centuries, accentuated from the 50s and 60s of the 20th Century.In these spaces, the traditional economy has given ground to cultural tourism, while the population continues to age and migrate to the cities. Thus, we would find ourselves faced with a kind of inverted mirage: in the demographic desert of deep Spain there is still a tough and true social life, which use the remains of a fictional past, an old alienated landscape, for self-realization.
Palabras chave
Fictional past. Alienated landscape. Replica. Deep Spain.