Los viajeros románticos extranjeros y el descubrimiento del paisaje de España

Abstract

There are, in the accounts of travellers who journeyed through Spain during the first half of the 19th century, eloquent examples of a new way of understanding landscape associated with Romanticism. They bring in interesting perceptions and experiences of the natural landscape (making note of fundamental contrasts and emphasizing distinctive features) and of the humanized landscape (providing valuable interpretations of both traditional urban layouts and the most substantial city features). All of this went into the elaboration of images and appraisals with far-reaching geographical impact. In Spain, the accounts of Romantic travellers give rise to a manner of understanding landscape that, to a large extent, both announced and were a preview of the perspectives of modern thinking on the reality of Spanish geography which would later be developed.