Conclusion: Authenticity and Identity The new houses and the new village itself try to bevernacular through

its image and look. Although they try to fulfill a collective imaginarythrough a countless iconic values used in housing design as well as in the urban organization, they do not express the truth of its essence and existence. One can say that they are not authentic as they do not give expression to this important and strong relationship that makes man and land one single identity. The study case of Aldeia da Luz is truly a real problem of authenticity and all this process can be seen today as a first time experience that brought into the scientific and politic agendas polemical discussions due to the social problems that were experienced by its population. Today, we can understand that this intent of recreation or the construction of a new village was inevitable as it was, probably, the best way tomake people believe that the new dam would have an important and fundamental role in regions development from which they were a significant part. From this experience we could learn that identity and authenticity are not values one can build or create. We cant even think that it is possible to move them or recreate them in another place. Authenticity and identity live together with the place because they are a significant part of the place; maybe we could say they are the factors that determine the essence of the place as we know it. They are consequences of an evolution. They are complex concepts and complex values so they depend from a kind of special relationship that makes an object part of the territory. And, tobe part of territory it is crucial to understand that the territory is not only the land. The territory is a well balanced mix that relates man with the site. It is a source of a cultural structure that is responsible for the differentiation between one place to another. It is possible to evoke the culture of a place but it is not possible to copy or to recreate it. Aldeia da Luz had a strong authenticity and identity value. Its urban settlement, its houses, its spaces, they both were consequences of a significant cultural and social development. Not only the history but, technologies, traditions and memories, they both were expressed in the materiality of the whitewashed walls of the houses or in the names of the streets. Both were cultural and symbolical references for the people who lived there as they meant and represent their feelings for the land. Although the new village similitudes to the former old one still exists they are only a matter of camouflage. The memory of the old village is inside peoples head and not in the place or in its houses. Today, people are the only part of the villages authenticity that has survived. In this new place, with new homes, with new streets theyre going to start over to build another identity because all the rest is now under water.