The historic urban landscape acquires its exceptional and universal significance
from a gradual evolutionary, as well as planned territorial development over a
relevant period of time through processes of urbanization, incorporating
environmental and topographic conditions and expressing economic and sociocultural
values pertaining to societies. As such, protection and conservation of the
historic urban landscape comprises the individual monuments to be found in
protection registers, as well as ensembles and their significant connections,
physical, functional and visual, material and associative, with the historic
typologies and morphologies.