10 The declaration of the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range as a World Heritage Site in the cultural landscape category was a participatory, open, and cross-cutting process that served as a tribute to the legacy of our ancestors. For Mallorca, inscription on the renowned UNESCO list meant joining the most prestigious international ranking in the field of heritage conservation. And not for a single heritage element, but for an entire landscape, one of the most extensive declared as such up to 2011; and moreover, a cultural landscape, that is, a whole territory where, thanks to human transformation, new values have been sculpted, making it even more unique and more worthy of protection. This designation also allowed for further protection of the surrounding area, as demonstrated by the declassification of the Es Guix urban development, in the heart of the Tramuntana, which was upheld in court because it was located within an area inscribed on the World Heritage List.

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