La Concha de Artedo - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 14:43:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg La Concha de Artedo - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 La Concha de Artedo Beach (Cudillero, Asturias) in 1786 https://historylab.es/la-concha-de-artedo-beach-cudillero-asturias-in-1786/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=la-concha-de-artedo-beach-cudillero-asturias-in-1786 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:25 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/playa-de-la-concha-de-artedo-cudillero-asturias-en-1786/ Plan of La Concha de Artedo with the proposals for fitting out its ports in 1786

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]]> With the analysis of coastal projects aimed at optimising the natural conditions of the ports, we can see the efforts to adapt these characteristics to those of 18th century vessels. In the case of La Concha de Artedo, a technically simple project was carried out, but it even established the plan of a city, since, due to the characteristics of the orography and the terrain, the Cantabrian Ocean would be the main adversary.
Although many projects were never executed due to lack of time and means, they serve as a very close theoretical approximation of the Crown’s awareness of the importance of an excellent network of ports in a country like Spain, with an overseas empire to maintain and ports in a poor state of conservation and operation. It would be in the 19th century when state financing and the new steam and dredging machines would allow these plans of the previous century to be put into practice.

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