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Resumen: ¿Quién no ha sentido alguna vez ganas de conocer un lugar, incluso cuando este está cercano a su núcleo de residencia? El turismo está cada día más presente en nuestras vidas, tanto es así que, hoy en día, hacer turismo debería entenderse como algo incluso necesario, que fomente las relaciones sociales y los intercambios culturales, a pesar de que a veces puedan surgir fricciones entre las sociedades receptoras y los visitantes debido a una relación poco respetuosa. El arqueoturismo es una de las muchas modalidades turísticas que se puede practicar, sea o no de modo complementaria a otras tipologías. En este artículo se pretende reflexionar acerca del arqueoturismo en la actualidad, su relación con el uso del Patrimonio y el problema que puede conllevar una mirada del mismo basada exclusivamente en la generación de riquezas económicas.Abstract: Everybody feels the urge to get to know a place better some time, no matter whether it be close at hand or remote. Tourism is on the up and has become almost a basic need in our lives. It promotes understanding and communication between cultures whenever managed and controlled respectfully. Archaeo -tourism is one of the many ways of enjoying tourism and can be mainstream or complementary to other modes. The present article is an analysis of the state -of -the -art in archaeotourism and its links to the use of heritage in the field plus the risks entailed in merely considering the same as a source of economic income.

ABSTRACT:This paper describes the surveying process performed on the Church of San Ildefonso in Zamora (Spain) using Orthoware © , an innovative photogrammetric software tool specially designed for the digital reconstruction of cultural heritage. This software is the result of intense R&D at Metria Digital after several years producing heritage true orthoimages, plans and full color 3D models in a commercial environment. Orthoware allows true measurements and produces high quality true orthoimages and full color 3D models starting out from conventional digital photographs. This is a progressive tool designed for non-specialist users, providing intuitive and quick methods to visually diagnose the quality of the results.The Church of San Ildefonso in Zamora was built over a previously existing temple whose Romanesque construction dates back to the 11th century, although it is nowadays hidden among extensions and remodelings carried out up until 18th century. With a length of more than 30 meters, the original floor plan of the Church consists on three naves and three apses, although only one nave is visible now, covered by groin vault, and one semicircular apse partially hidden by the current building. The south front maintains the greater part of its Romanesque origins, in spite of being hidden and higher than the present ground level. At the feet of the temple a tower rises, whose first stage is Romanesque but which has been altered by numerous Baroque elements.The objective of the photogrammetric reconstruction was the integral survey of the monument, including its four façades, interior faces and roofs for the production of some true-orthoimages, cross-sections, longitudinal-sections and ground plans at scale 1/50 with an accuracy of 10 mm for the drawings and a pixel size below 10 mm for the synthetic imagery.The usual photogrammetric workflow for producing true-orthoimages and digital 3D models in cultural heritage depends to a great extent on finding and matching homologous features amongst various images. This is a time-consuming, repetitive and blind recognition process requiring some spatial intuition and experience from the user. Orthoware makes use of automatic image analysis and computer vision techniques to improve this processing. Its innovative graphic user interface allows full interactivity and corrections or refinements to be performed at any time providing intuitive diagnostics from partial results. This flow involves very intensive calculations achieved through a software development specific for GPU (Graphic Processing Unit), using OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) and DirectX. Therefore, a combination of manual and automatic techniques makes up the ideal tool for a production environment. The workflow presented herein allow users to reduce orthoimage production time from months to just a few weeks.

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El presente artículo pone de manifiesto las carencias de conocimiento arqueológico e histórico acerca de la fortaleza de Bizilyāna. De este modo, nos hemos planteado llevar a cabo un análisis arqueológico y arquitectónico de los muros, torres y otros elementos emergentes que se conservan, cuya lectura sirve para aproximarnos a su origen y diversas etapas constructivas, teniendo siempre en cuenta paralelos indicados por otros investigadores. Los resultados de nuestra investigación delatan la posible existencia de un asentamiento en altura correspondiente a los siglos VI-VIII, así como la fundación de la actual construcción de mampostería entre los siglos X-XI. Sobre ella, se levantaba una obra de tapial de planta poligonal que se adapta al terreno. En los siglos XII-XIII, se le añade una barbacana. Se identifican además una reforma del siglo XIV y una última reconstrucción de finales del siglo XV, esta ya realizada por los cristianos.