“Place – just like landscape, space and land – means different things to different people in different contexts. Thus space and landscape generate a sense of cultural identity. Much depends on the cultural context of the people involved. Thus, even if there is a growing sense of European culture;

‘The reality of Europe has long been of making differences between Europeans on the basis of certain common inheritances that have been given distinctive casts in different places. So, even if a given landscape vista can be thought of as having a certain ‘Europeanness’ to it, compared say to North American or North African vistas, much stronger influences come from national, regional and local contexts in which the particular vistas are embedded.’

There are numerous examples of the diversity of perceptions of landscape depending on the cultural context of the individuals or groups involved….”