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Potential for Urban Geotourism: Churches and Cemeteries

Potential for Urban Geotourism: Churches and Cemeteries The practice of tourism in urban areas exploring geological aspects is called urban geotourism. Despite the possibility of finding natural rock outcrops in a city, urban geotourism has more bias toward built heritage, focused on stone materials. Cemeterial geotourism and ecclesiastical geotourism are branches of this activity. Cemeteries and churches all over the world have a very diverse petrographic collection, and this information could be explored in the itineraries of the existing visits, enriching the tour and contributing to the dissemination of geosciences. Urban geotourism is still underexplored in Brazil, but these geotrails are gradually emerging. The present work explores the potential of cemeteries and churches, both in Brazil and abroad, as appropriate places to know one of the most important building materials: stone. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Geoheritage Springer Journals

Potential for Urban Geotourism: Churches and Cemeteries

Geoheritage , Volume 11 (3) – Sep 19, 2018

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 by The European Association for Conservation of the Geological Heritage
Subject
Earth Sciences; Historical Geology; Physical Geography; Biogeosciences; Paleontology; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Mineralogy
ISSN
1867-2477
eISSN
1867-2485
DOI
10.1007/s12371-018-0325-9
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Abstract

The practice of tourism in urban areas exploring geological aspects is called urban geotourism. Despite the possibility of finding natural rock outcrops in a city, urban geotourism has more bias toward built heritage, focused on stone materials. Cemeterial geotourism and ecclesiastical geotourism are branches of this activity. Cemeteries and churches all over the world have a very diverse petrographic collection, and this information could be explored in the itineraries of the existing visits, enriching the tour and contributing to the dissemination of geosciences. Urban geotourism is still underexplored in Brazil, but these geotrails are gradually emerging. The present work explores the potential of cemeteries and churches, both in Brazil and abroad, as appropriate places to know one of the most important building materials: stone.

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GeoheritageSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 19, 2018

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