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The catastrophic effects derived from COVID-19 for the survival of the cultural sphere in the world have once again made rural areas, peri-urban environments and less populated areas a source of interest for millions of people. Personal and family security, environmental and economic living conditions and the improvement of equipment and services are factors that have already generated perceptible movements back to the field of professionals and families. Knowing that cultural endowments and initiatives and installation costs are competitive advantages that increase this attractiveness, we approach cultural policies for the countryside, its conditions and constraints, through some of its most relevant initiatives in the democratic period in Spain with a special mention to a pioneering program: Culturalcampo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In May 2019, the Seminar "Rethinking local cultural policies- Local policies as creators of cultural capital," was held in Valladolid (Spain). Issues regarding actual and future local cultural agendas were presented and discussed, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the first democratic municipal elections in Spain in the second half of the twentieth century. Strengthening local cultural capital, recovering political leadership for culture, fighting the cultural and gender gap in culture and bringing cultural rights together with cultural and creative industries were some of the topics discussed in the session. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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