Role of cultural heritage in quality of life for rural residents Case: The central part of city Lamerd

Rural cultural heritage represents the historical background. Rural culture that shapes each country in many years has been realized. Rural cultural heritage, including features such as rural communities, local habits, and customs related to food and clothing, architecture, monuments and buildings are historic, music, art, local languages and spiritual and moral values. Each country should specify social phenomena in rural areas where its past traditions remain, should be maintained. Unfortunately, rural and cultural heritage in our country with low interest aside is declining. Although in recent years, efforts by some government agencies and NGOs interested in conservation of cultural heritage made culture and traditions of society be better identified and the resultant revival sought, but no information regarding the current generation of value and importance of cultural heritage has been recognized. In order to achieve the goals of sustainable rural development causes of these effects, material and spiritual values at risk are located and destroyed. This applied research is a way to cross-sectional article. Techniques used for data collection are document type field work. The results of field studies by the authors identified and ranked 10 villages with cultural heritage in the city of Lamerd and explained the quality of life indicators at the level of households living in 160 villages. The study shows that cultural heritage has no effects on the quality index of residents living in rural central city. For this reason the most effective indicator of the quality of rural housing and rural education has been cultural heritage.