The Alto Douro Wine Region is a particularly representative area of the landscape that characterizes the vast Douro Demarcated Region, the oldest regulated wine-growing region in the world. The cultural landscape of the Alto Douro combines the monumental nature of the Douro river valley, made of steep slopes and poor and rugged soils, with the ancestral and continuous action of Man, adapting the space to the Mediterranean-type agricultural needs that the region supports.