El vino de calidad y su patrimonio cultural en el desarrollo del enoturismo en la D. O. Cigales

Abstract

Wine quality and cultural heritage in the development of wine tourism in the D.O. Cigales Cigales is one of the nine Appellations of Origin (D.O.) that exist in the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León, and this D.O. was recognized as such in 1991, although its mark in wine production dates back to the tenth century. Throughout the years, but especially since the mid-twentieth century, in particular by appointing as D.O. Cigales in 1991, have been producing a series of major changes in this activity in this territory and oriented towards the development of higher quality wines. Along with this fact must be added to the existing wealth artistic heritage, not only linked to the world of wine, but everyone present in the territory. These two elements, wine and heritage, were the two key in the development of wine tourism initiatives in the municipalities that make up the D.O. Cigales, and have contributed to the economic diversification of rural areas