This document proposes, based on the legal considerations emanated from the Political Constitution of Colombia, the consideration of architectonic cultural heritage as a collective right and presents the analysis of a national case in which the evolution of its legal protection process and the obligation to undertake a correct management of the regulations, to achieve the maximum use of its potentialities.It concludes with a reflection about the need to implement pedagogical processes, in which the State-private company-academy-community formula guarantees its safeguarding and evidences a correct interrelation between the historical, the architectural, the political, the and the cultural aspects.