Gómez-Mendoza historicises the relation between landscape and heritage in order to reverse a familiar hierarchy. Instead of asking which heritage objects possess landscape qualities, she argues for recognising landscapes themselves as heritage because their singularity condenses long interactions between natural and human processes. The distinction between political and vernacular landscapes is central: one materialises territorial order through planning and power, while the other accumulates through situated collective practices. Heritage therefore becomes less a property inherent in exceptional objects than a historically produced mode of valuation applied to territorial configurations. The methodological operation is genealogical, following how monument, cultural landscape and patrimonial landscape change meaning across institutions and periods, including UNESCO frameworks. Its wider bridge is to critical heritage studies: landscapes become archives of power, use and transmission whose value cannot be detached from the historical processes that made them visible, governable and worthy of preservation.