The mountain, the mountains...just a few reflections.

In Western countries, mountain territories are often the scenary of th die-hard maintenance of the traits and features of traditonial society. Nevertheless, the concept of mountain is a polysemic space in wich several notions coexist. We make an abridgement of the main traits of the physical mountain (the average Mediterranean mountain), the historical-social mountain, the legal mountain and the cultural mountain in Western countires, witch a special reference to the Valencian Country.