Local heritage can provide unique opportunities for economic development, but also for a more-balanced distribution of the benefits of pilgrimage ways. The revaluation of local heritage should start with an understandings of their values, which is possible through documentation of the heritage values of rural assets placed in the vicinity of European pilgrimage ways. Documentation is the basis for an effective management, but documentation through cataloguing and inventories should consider their complexity and their final use by both specialists and non-specialists.