El paisatge tradicional del Grau de València als gravats i plànols històrics (segles XVI-XIX)

Abstract

El Grau de València is an old independent municipality annexed to València at the end of the 19th century following the dynamics of other peripheral nuclei of the cap-i-casal . That annexation meant a drastic change in its neighborhoods and new communication routes substantially altered the traditional landscape that surrounded El Grau, which had remained practically unaltered from the 16th century. The Turia river, the coastline and the horta , wetlands and ditches and related canals defined the landscape of El Grau for centuries. Thanks to the cartography and the existing views and engravings from the preindustrial period, we can reconstruct that landscape that the political and urban processes of the 19th century completely altered.