Discursos de Poder Frente al Patrimonio Monumental de las Iglesias del Centro Histórico de Quito. Los Templos de el Robo y el Belén, las Iglesias al Límite

The Historic Center of the city of Quito has been considered one of the best preserved in Latin America, which is why it was recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. However, this declaration has generated debates about the use and enjoyment of this space as a purely tourist site lacking a sense of community, identity and symbolism, which alienates the inhabitants of the community. It is for this reason that this study aims to make known, from a broad and global vision, the processes of several historic centers, the regulations that have regulated them and the influence of the cultural industries, to finally tell a different story, behind the discourses of power, which can lay the groundwork for understanding from another perspective the notion of heritage and the opportunity to generate new cultural spaces from the sectors that specifically correspond to the churches of El Robo and El Belén.