Authenticity
Indisputably, the Mastorochoria cultural heritage is the authentic result of a dynamic and lasting interaction between natural and human processes in the territory. Scientific research, analyses and examinations, spoken discourse of local memories and bibliographic resources, tangible and intangible evidences contribute to the verification of the Mastorochoria authentic cultural context. Despite the fact that the majority of cultural elements are partly preserved (Table 3), they acquire ‘multi-interpretability’, and create ‘potential field of interrelated cultural content and values, which express the unity of [the] particular heritage’ (Ganiatsas 1996:105). The structures may have been aesthetically tainted, but their substantial base in combination with their rich intangible context is still able to to tell the story of the past.