Valencia-Tarragona Railway Line Timeline

CALVÉ MASCARELL, Óscar

Promoted by the controversial figure of José Campo, the construction of the Valencia-Tarragona railway line (1862-1868) was the starting point of the Mediterranean Corridor in the Contemporary Age. Not in vain, already in its nineteenth-century conception, the section dealt with in this book was contemplated as part of the connection between Malaga and Naples. The volume selects more than a hundred press reports from the period and of varying ideological bias in order to address, with sufficient historical perspective, heterogeneous aspects relating to the creation of this line: the engineering challenges (where the construction of the bridges over the Turia in Valencia and over the Ebro...

Promoted by the controversial figure of José Campo, the construction of the Valencia-Tarragona railway line (1862-1868) was the starting point of the Mediterranean Corridor in the Contemporary Age. Not in vain, already in its nineteenth-century conception, the section dealt with in this book was contemplated as part of the connection between Malaga and Naples. The volume selects more than a hundred press reports from the period and of varying ideological bias in order to address, with sufficient historical perspective, heterogeneous aspects relating to the creation of this line: the engineering challenges (where the construction of the bridges over the Turia in Valencia and over the Ebro in Tortosa stand out), the controversies over the route associated with the feverish desire to reap the benefits of the new transport system, the uses and abuses of the promoters (with José Campo defined by some as a ‘champion of modernity’ and by others as a ‘criminal’), the diversification of the workforce employed (from highly specialised English engineers to underprivileged children who acted as cheap labour)? A material then intrinsically associated with modernity for its innovative use in construction and in the flamboyant presses of the newspapers that are the subject of this publication, but above all, for making possible and even giving a name, also in its Castilian meaning - the railway - to a mode of transport hardly dreamt of by mankind for millennia.

The País Valencià's Roads of Antiquity

ARASA i GIL, Ferran

For archaeology, roads are a specific category of remains produced by human activity as a result of communication needs. In their most developed form, that of communication channels suitable for wheeled vehicles, they have been well identified at least since the Iberian period, and their construction became widespread in Roman times. The form they take as archaeological sites is peculiar, different from others with larger surfaces and concentrated development, such as settlements or necropolises. Roads are linear, narrow and very long sites, and as such present a particular problem for their study and also pose different protection needs. The construction of roads became widespread with...

For archaeology, roads are a specific category of remains produced by human activity as a result of communication needs. In their most developed form, that of communication channels suitable for wheeled vehicles, they have been well identified at least since the Iberian period, and their construction became widespread in Roman times. The form they take as archaeological sites is peculiar, different from others with larger surfaces and concentrated development, such as settlements or necropolises. Roads are linear, narrow and very long sites, and as such present a particular problem for their study and also pose different protection needs. The construction of roads became widespread with the Roman conquest and constituted one of the fundamental pillars of the great territorial reorganisation programmes set in motion at the beginning of the Empire, such as that begun by Augustus in Hispania. This basically consisted of the construction of a series of major strategic axes which - in a highly centralised state - guaranteed communication with the capital, Rome. The far-reaching nature of this programme meant that it continued throughout the 1st century AD, under the reign of different emperors, with the intervention of all the administrations. The work presented here is intended as a state of the art on the history of roads in Antiquity. This work aims to question the history of the pathways of Anquity in the Valencian Country, the Iberian world and the Roman period throughout nine centuries. A relevant novelty is taking a closer look in details that allow to go back the history of some centuries ago to the Iberian era and the first findings of Republican era roads and the transition phase between these two great Mediteranean cultures that interacted with the Valencian lands.

Baeza-Utiel Railway

ALABAU MONTOYA, José and LATORRE ZACARÉS, Ignacio

The idea of linking France and Africa with a railway system that would go through Spain from North to South to form a possible connection with the Spanish and French protectorates in nothern Africa came to the mind of Spanish and French politicians of the 19th century. One of these projects was approved during the Primo de Rivera dictatorship (1926): a transversal line from Baeza (Jaén) up to Saint Girons in souther France that went through Jaén, Albacete, Valencia, Teruel and Lleida as an alternative to the system of the moment. This study focuses on the BaezaUtiel railway, which was the first line of this marcoproject and covered 370 km, with specia attention to the Valencian part...

The idea of linking France and Africa with a railway system that would go through Spain from North to South to form a possible connection with the Spanish and French protectorates in nothern Africa came to the mind of Spanish and French politicians of the 19th century. One of these projects was approved during the Primo de Rivera dictatorship (1926): a transversal line from Baeza (Jaén) up to Saint Girons in souther France that went through Jaén, Albacete, Valencia, Teruel and Lleida as an alternative to the system of the moment. This study focuses on the BaezaUtiel railway, which was the first line of this marcoproject and covered 370 km, with specia attention to the Valencian part (its 4th section) going from Albacete to Utiel.

Thought City, Lived City, Represented City

SÁNCHEZ IZQUIERDO, Pablo

This study offers a search of artistic expressions that help see how writers musicians, painters, scultors, architects and artists perceived the city of Alicante in a similar way, comforming its image and contributing with art to the identity tthat unified urban refurbishment and territory ordenance with the inhabitants feelings. It is a journey from the city's inside to its outside throughout its streets and avenues in the urban centre and districts. It is also a walk through the sea view, from the Mediterranean to the natural scenery of Alicante. A return to the province's capital, not to study its characteristic image of late 19th century and early 20th century, but to see how it was...

This study offers a search of artistic expressions that help see how writers musicians, painters, scultors, architects and artists perceived the city of Alicante in a similar way, comforming its image and contributing with art to the identity tthat unified urban refurbishment and territory ordenance with the inhabitants feelings. It is a journey from the city's inside to its outside throughout its streets and avenues in the urban centre and districts. It is also a walk through the sea view, from the Mediterranean to the natural scenery of Alicante. A return to the province's capital, not to study its characteristic image of late 19th century and early 20th century, but to see how it was destroyed and rebuilt during the Civil War and how relations appeared between urban space, inhabitants and artists who went from pride to fear, to political committment and humanity.

The Mediterranean Corridor: Millenary Reality, Century Demand. València, 1918

ARCINIEGA GARCÍA, Luis (dir.)

This publication brings together a whole process that links the diffuse commemoration of the second millennium of the Via Augusta with the centenary of Ignacio Villalonga's claim for a railway axis that would run along the Mediterranean peninsular coast and communicate with trans-Pyrenean Europe. This publication brings together a whole process that links the diffuse commemoration of the second millennium of the Via Augusta with the centenary of Ignacio Villalonga's claim for a railway axis that would run along the Mediterranean peninsular coast and communicate with trans-Pyrenean Europe. Since ancient times, the Mediterranean axis has been of great importance for the communication of...

This publication brings together a whole process that links the diffuse commemoration of the second millennium of the Via Augusta with the centenary of Ignacio Villalonga's claim for a railway axis that would run along the Mediterranean peninsular coast and communicate with trans-Pyrenean Europe. This publication brings together a whole process that links the diffuse commemoration of the second millennium of the Via Augusta with the centenary of Ignacio Villalonga's claim for a railway axis that would run along the Mediterranean peninsular coast and communicate with trans-Pyrenean Europe. Since ancient times, the Mediterranean axis has been of great importance for the communication of people and ideas and the distribution of goods. In medieval and modern times it gave way to a fragmented road network, and from the second half of the 18th century to a radial peninsular layout. These characteristics were transferred in the following century to the railway network, which, due to the diversity of companies, became extremely fragmented. In the Valencian sphere, in the first decades of the 20th century, there was a constant request for improvements in infrastructures and communications with a view to the development of the economy. Between the Regional Exhibition of Valencia in 1909 and the First World War, there were requests for improvements to the port, a direct train linking it with Madrid via Utiel and a Mediterranean rail corridor. In the latter case, the proposal made by Ignacio Villalonga in 1918 stands out. Social, economic and political realities prevented or delayed most of the proposals. The incorporation of Spain into the European Union in 1986 allowed this circumstance to be reconsidered. The Mediterranean Corridor, in a new supranational articulation, can be seen in the network of multimodal corridors of the European Union.

Castellón, a Communication Territory

AGUILAR CIVERA, Inmaculada (coord.)

The Alicante Tramway

AGUILAR CIVERA, Inmaculada (coord.)

Benicàssim and the Railway History

AGUILAR CIVERA, Inmaculada

Valencia Tramway 1874-2004

AGUILAR CIVERA, Inmaculada

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