The Transcultural Dimension in Heritage Conservation

In recent years the meaning and value of cultural heritage have taken on a local dimension, favoring the centrality of communities and the development of territories in relation to their characteristics. This new perspective has been favored by the need to regenerate all those cultural processes of local realities, putting the value of culture back at the center. The serious imbalances and disharmonies that currently exist in the world highlight the need to start from the cultural values of individual communities and to build transcultural relational processes capable of giving priority to human, spiritual and educational values, all fundamental references for building a sustainable world. Meanwhile, these complicated problems of the world highlight the need to enhance the value of local cultural realities, communities, individuals with the aim of pursuing greater balance and harmony. All this requires a greater capacity for sharing, cooperation and creativity in order to achieve lifestyles more compatible with the sustainable development that the whole world now requires. This contribution aims to bring the reader closer to some issues aimed at enhancing education in culture and one's own heritage, fundamental resources for the development of our personality and our life in dialogue with others.