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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Alto Douro Wine Region' has mentioned 'Region' in the following places:
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| Douro is a Portuguese wine region centered on the Douro River in the Trxc3xa1s-os-Montes e Alto Douro region. | WIKI |
| The region has Portugal's highest wine classification as a Denominaxc3xa7xc3xa3o de Origem Controlada (DOC). | WIKI |
| While the region is associated primarily with Port wine production, the Douro produces just as much table wine (non-fortified wines) as it does fortified wine. | WIKI |
| There is archaeological evidence for winemaking in the region dating from the end of the Western Roman Empire, during the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, although grape seeds have also been found at older archaeological sites. | WIKI |
| [2] In Medieval times from the mid-12th century, Cistercians had an important influence on winemaking in the region, through their three monasteries Salzedas, Sxc3xa3o Joxc3xa3o de Tarouca and Sxc3xa3o Pedro das xc3x81guias. | WIKI |
| In the 17th century, the region's vineyards expanded, and the earliest known mention of "Port wine" dates from 1675. | WIKI |
| The Methuen Treaty between Portugal and England in 1703, and the subsequent establishment of many British Port lodges in Porto meant that Port wine became the primary product of the region, and it became economically very important to Portugal. | WIKI |
| As part of the regulation of the production and trade of this valuable commodity, a royal Portuguese charter of 10 September 1756 defined the production region for Port wine. | WIKI |
| It thus became the world's first wine region to have a formal demarcation. | WIKI |
| The vineyards covered by this demarcation were situated in the western part of the present region. | WIKI |
| While table wine has always been produced in the region, for a long time little of it was seen outside the region itself. | WIKI |
| The Douro winemaking region was declared a World Heritage Site in 2001. | WIKI |
| The Douro wine region is situated around the Douro river valley and lower vallies of its tributaries Varosa, Corgo, Txc3xa1vora, Torto, and Pinhxc3xa3o. | WIKI |
| The region is sheltered from Atlantic winds by the Marxc3xa3o and Montemuro mountains and has a continental climate, with hot and dry summers and cold winters. | WIKI |
| Terraced vineyards are very common in the Douro region. | WIKI |
| The principal grape varieties of the Douro region include the black grapes Bastardo, Mourisco tinto, Tinta Amarela, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Cxc3xa3o, Tinta Roriz (the same as Spain's Tempranillo), Touriga Francesa and Touriga Nacional, and the white grapes Donzelinho branco, Gouveio, Malvasia Fina, Rabigato, and Viosinho. | WIKI |
| A large number of grape varieties are grown in the Douro region, most of them local Portuguese grapes. | WIKI |
| Wine has been produced by traditional landholders in the Alto Douro Region for some 2,000 years. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iii): The Alto Douro Region has been producing wine for nearly two thousand years and its landscape has been moulded by human activities. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (v): The cultural landscape of the Alto Douro is an outstanding example of a traditional European wine-producing region, reflecting the evolution of this human activity over time. | UNESCO |
| The cultural landscape of the Alto Douro Wine Region is an outstanding example of humankindxe2x80x99s unique relationship with the natural environment. | UNESCO |
| As a result, the state of conservation of the Alto Douro Wine Region, in particular of the majority of supporting walls, is remarkably good, and clearly superior to that of the buffer zone. | UNESCO |
| Popular identification with the Region is reinforced by the congruence between its area now and that of the original demarcation. | UNESCO |
| The Alto Douro Wine Region has, and undoubtedly always had, a different meaning according to the perspective of each interest group. | UNESCO |
| The Douro equally belongs to the small shopkeepers and middlemen in the region, to the owners of the quintas xe2x80x93 both Portuguese and foreign xe2x80x93 who stay there at different times in the year, to the shippers in the Douro and in Vila Nova de Gaia who are engaged in the wine trade, and to all those people in Portugal and the world over who have learnt to celebrate each great moment in their lives or in the destiny of nations with a glass of Port wine. | UNESCO |
| Protecting and managing the Alto Douro Wine Region (ADWR) is a rather complex task considering the propertyxe2x80x99s size, the diversity of entities involved and the high number of owners and stakeholders. | UNESCO |
| Its main objectives are the enhancement, preservation and safeguarding of the Alto Douro Wine Region landscape. | UNESCO |