Beschreibung:
Man is a cultural animal. Space for geographers is both a structure and a system in which social and economic parameters play a role; but for the men who live in it space is also a territory, which they see through the lenses of their culture. This territory is linked to the ethnic identity and the culture that shape it. Translated into spatial terms, the concept of culture inevitably calls forth that of territory. In fact it is the existence of a culture which creates a territory, and it is the territory which embodies the symbolic relationship between culture and space. Territory is then a "geosymbol", i.e. a place, an itinerary, a space, which acquires in the eyes of ethnic groups and peoples the cultural and symbolic dimension in which their values are rooted and through which their identity is affirmed.