El arquitecto Jaime Bort en París (1751-1752)

Abstract

After being accepted in the Court, the architect Jaime Bort starts a new European trip persuaded by Marquis de la Ensenada and Marquis de Rafal. Under a new attempt to make the city of Madrid modern and save it from the filthy hygiene state , Bort needs to look into solutions that other metropolis had taken.. In his correspondence from Paris, which is transcribed here, it can be found which activity Bort was doing during his European trip, not only limited to study the solutions carried out to improve the cleaning stage of Madrid.