Viñedos periurbanos y patrimonio cultural: continuidad y transformación del paisaje vitivinícola de Montevideo: CONTINUIDAD Y TRANSFORMACIÓN DEL PAISAJE VITIVINÍCOLA DE MONTEVIDEO

This paper examines vineyards on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, tracing their development from their origins to the present, from the notions of cultural heritage and cultural landscape. Wine-making landscapes are thus understood as historic urban landscapes, agricultural landscapes and food landscapes. Based on a review of historical texts, specialized academic sources, and institutional databases, this article explores the formation, continuity, and transformation of Montevideo’s peri-urban vineyards. It offers a comparative study of the cultivated hectares, the number of wineries and the number of vineyards within the delimited area, considering both the intangible heritage of Mediterranean immigrant knowledge and the notion of cultural landscapes as a category that links productive materiality and the transmission of knowledge. The study argues that these vineyards form a cultural palimpsest, expressing identity and reflecting the tension between permanence and change.