The question of whether summer cinemas represent a business or an anthropological tradition rooted in Córdoba and Andalusia has been a subject of discussion for years. Film collectives and citizens wonder if this activity deserves special cultural protection and how such protection would affect the venues hosting open-air screenings.
While the idea of considering summer cinemas a form of intangible heritage is shared by thousands of people, both locals and visitors, the Cordoban capital, which once boasted the most summer cinemas in Spain, has not yet taken the formal administrative steps to achieve the declaration of Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) for this activity.
Although, not necessarily, this means that the formal administrative steps have been taken to achieve the declaration of Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) for this activity, which thousands of people, Cordobans and non-Cordobans alike, do consider a type of intangible heritage, since, at least locally, it constitutes a centuries-old tradition that made the Cordoban capital the city with the most summer cinemas in all of Spain.
