HART’s main goals are:
– Contribute to a wide-ranging reflection on the subject, complementing the scientific component with an empirical view and the scientifically uninformed opinions that ‘inhabit’ it permanently.
– Identify good practices in the adaptive reuse of heritage and tourism.
– Bring stakeholders together for an assertive debate on the subject.
– Realise that the demands of heritage work can have implications for strategies, models and tools for adaptive reuse.
– Promote a participatory debate.
– Encourage collaboration between cultural agents and between them and Portalegre’s tourism agents, with a view to making articulate, collaborative and coherent use of its tangible and intangible cultural heritage.- Promote the sustainable development of cultural tourism in Portalegre, with an attractive and cohesive offer in its tangible and intangible aspects.