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Abstract
The historical analyses of two stretches of countryside, the study of their evolution and transformation factors, in other words the study of what they have and will become, and a few ideas on the relationship between tourism and the landscape lead us to work out a number of possible developments integrated in a landscape management framework. Whether it is the result of empirical or deliberate steps, the future of our countryside is at present programmed by the ideologies of contemporary society : rationality, productivism, consumption... But to choose a landscap's future is to preserve for years to come a meeting place between nature and man that provides him with the raw material for his creative spirit and for his imagination. The future of the countryside is therefore connected with an open opposition to the false ideology of a reassuring sense of happiness secreted by a mercantile Society so that the contacts between man and nature do not become rigid but can evolve, the first condition of all creation.