Desde que el paisaje deja de ser un concepto pictórico, para adquirir la dimensión espacio-temporal que lo aproxima a la realidad de un territorio, los estudios y las reflexiones acerca del mismo han sido numerosas. Se trata sin duda de uno de los elementos en los que se puede constatar de una manera directa la interrelación de las acciones del hombre en un medio al que siempre ha tendido a dominar, convirtiéndolo incluso en un aspecto diferenciador e identificador de la colectividad a la que pertenece, fruto del largo devenir histórico de la misma.

Numerous studies and analysis of the term 'landscape' have been written since it ceased to be merely a pictorial concept, and took on a temporal and spatial meaning which has led to its being used to designate a territory. lt is certainly one of the elements in which the influence of man in a medium which he has always tried to domínate, is most clearly to be seen, and has even been considered a differentiating feature of the human societies to which it belongs, as a result of historical development.