There are around 34,000 monuments in Portugal  with no official protection (cf. Estudo Património em Portugal - Avaliação do Valor Económico e Social ). . This means that any person or entity may do whatever they wish with them; that no institution is responsible for these assets; and that they are not eligible for EU funding programmes that require heritage classification. How, then, can we attend to this heritage, assuming that such a “state of affairs” is clearly unaccepta