Abstract
From Law n. 1497/1939 to Law by decree n.157/2006 it is possible to single out numerous legislative measures which gradually modified and enlarged the juridical conception of landscape, with the aim of determining the more suitable instruments for its preservation and defence. In 1939 the landscape had an essentially aesthetic juridical connotation, thus the instruments for its protection were recognized in bonds and territorial landscape planning. From the ‘80s, the concept of landscape widened, being it considered as the “shape and characteristic of the territory”. It is in the 90s and in the following years, thanks also to the International regulations, that landscape is seen as cultural goods, being the result of a synergy and interactions of different factors, such as nature, man, traditions.