In recent years, there has been a big shift in analyses of historic centres, with the spotlight turning from the issue of urban degradation and the ageing population to studies of the risks associated with touristification and gentrification. The island of Ibiza is one of the Mediterranean’s leading tourist destinations, and its capital is one of the fifteen Spanish cities declared as World Heritage Sites (UNESCO). This study aimed to explore the touristification of Ibiza’s historic centre (a World Heritage Site). To do so, it explored three interrelated variables, the historic centre’s demographic dynamics, tourist accommodations, and heritage, through an analysis of heritage interventions derived from the UNESCO declaration. The methodology was based on the statistical use of demographic and tourism accommodation data on an inter-urban scale by mapping the main results, as well as on a study of the heritage data from the municipal catalogue. We concluded that the old city is in a state of change, both socially (with a demographic decline and drop in the native population) and culturally. All this reinforces its role as a supplier of complementary tourism services and as a museumized space for sun and sand resorts in the rest of the city and throughout the island.

El objetivo principal de esta investigación es estudiar los diferentes modelos de gestión turística de los tres santuarios localizados en la montaña de Randa (Mallorca), territorio en el que tienen cabida diversas espiritualidades y donde se distinguen diferentes fórmulas de entretenimiento y mercantilización de lo sagrado. La variedad de opciones que se materializan, indican una realidad dinámica y cambiante, extrapolable a otros lugares del ámbito internacional. The objective of this research is to study the different models of tourism management of the three sanctuaries located in the mountain of Randa (Mallorca), territory where different spiritualities can be found and where different formulas of entertainment and commercialization of the sacred are distinguished. The variety of materialized options indicate a dynamic and changing reality, extrapolated to other places in the international context.

Las misiones franciscanas constituyen el legado patrimonial más antiguo y valioso de California. El camino seguido desde el origen revelará el interés generado en América y España, cómo ha evolucionado su patrimonio, y cuál es la realidad actual que deriva de su modelo de gestión. El papel que hoy desempeñan como instituciones culturales y motores del turismo, en especial aquellas que forman parte de Parques Históricos Estatales, poco tiene que ver con su primitiva función productiva y espiritual.

The twenty-one missions in Upper California were the first test of shared community life by Spaniards and the native population there. The presence of these missions contributed to the emergence of new types of architecture and to big social changes. The purpose of this paper is to analyse some important features of this architecture­ that largely influenced the latter's role as a tool in evangelization and in controlling the native population. The methodology that was used, supported by an extensive bibliography and documentary sources, consisted of an analysis of plans, paintings and photographs from different eras, combined with fieldwork at some missions. Among other results, we highlight the idea that the missions' design was determined by religious and production activities, giving priority, on the one hand, to the religious community's wellbeing over that of the native population and, on the other, to the use of inner areas as opposed to outer ones. Secularization, in 1833, led to a halt in the missions' activities, plunging them into a state of neglect which persisted through to the beginning of restoration work in the 20th century. These missions are now tourist and cultural attractions, visited by tourists and students who interpret the early history of a state characterized by its colonization.