The "landscape experienced" in empirical research conducted by Lublin scholars

According to European Landscape Convention (2000), landscape is an area perceived by people, whose character is the result of the activity and interaction between natural and/or human factors. Landscape influences quality of people’s life, irrespective of the place they stay at: in a town, in the countryside, in the areas of great natural value or polluted, beautiful and ordinary – everyday areas. As the most important demand, protection of quality and character of landscape is coming into prominence. Landscape is treated here as an individual within properly identified regional features. Landscape is classified according to evaluation of its character. This assessment is based on identification of specific attributes of the landscape that differentiate it from other landscapes. Another way of classification of landscapes is designating types and conditions of: changes introducing into the landscape and development of investments. Experience of the landscape, it means its perception, plays a crucial role here. The perception is usually multisensoric, with dominance of eyesight (visual impulses) but in some conditions it may be dominated by other senses, eg. sense of hearing (when noise is especially loud) or sense of smell (in the case of unpleasant odour). Along with visual impulses, sound impulses have also great importance for landscape perception. In the article, results of survey on life’s quality and cultural landscape were shown. The survey were carried out in the years 2000-2007 among inhabitants of the Lublin voivodship. At the end of the work some prospects for landscape researches were also suggested.