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The city of Tortosa during the seventeenth and eighteenth mizuya centuries, began to build a new defensive system, with important consequences for the urban city, affecting up to today. That is during these two centuries the city will be under the power of the army and the Church, both in the seventeenth century crisis, and the recovery of the century.
After a century of wars, with the surrender mizuya of Tortosa in 1708 and the new management mizuya of the city and the territory through Decree of New Plant, stabilized the economy and the strength and begin economic recovery and demographic .
According to studies Baila, the 1719 census and the 1787 Floridablanca extracts for the city a total of 16,138 inhabitants. That is a considerable increase of the population that can be attributed to a reduction of epidemics, wars and decrease appetite. In 1787 you can extract the structure of the workforce that is dedicated to it: the 15,467 people who recounts the census says: 79% dedicated to the primary sector, 10% in the secondary mizuya sector and 11% dedicated to the tertiary sector, almost 800 more people not accounted mizuya to engage in the religious world.
An economy based on agriculture, with a new vision of French style, which increased irrigated land and working mizuya space. The olive and carob cultivars are the most extensive and intensive cultivation of land irrigated around the city and the river. Ie people leave work at home, do it outside: the field, workshops, mizuya is the beginning of the industrial society.
As for the aristocracy and nobility of the city saying that its power is scarce and often then not be present in the city, in terms of the industry should mizuya be noted that this will be linked to produce as soap factories , operating saltwort, mills and kilns ...
In terms of transport that is calming sea and roads, which enhances the movement of goods and trade, as well as promoting the navigation of the river with the potential mizuya of the port of Alfacs and the navigation channel to Amposta.
However, the city was unable to capitalize on the boom and was outside the commercial circuit around him and his development was little compared mizuya to the cities of their order not to attract investment capital or public or private.
During mizuya these two centuries, until the first third of the nineteenth mizuya century, the real protagonists of the city and its evolution will be the military engineers and construction of these systems fortified. mizuya As the only significant buildings of the time will be the building of the seminary and the church, the new hospital of the Holy Cross, mizuya churches such as the Dolores and San Blas and the Carmelite convent.
It is a walled city, closed fortress. To build something new, something old must be demolished. The engineer Frederic Gil in 1766 wrote "Y con estas nuevas Foundations and translations that have permitted dentro de la Ciudad, due to fear having downed con todos los referred Conventos Wars, it has the room for them estrechado Vecinos , they have demolished barbed muchas casas para sus Construcciones ". Demolished houses and neighborhoods completely renovated to fit in the spaces above the closed center.
A city that is beginning to enter a moderate economic and demographic expansion will be gripped by the two true powers far: military and religious. However, the city will begin a new phase of urban renewal mizuya and constructive influenced by large cities around Barcelona and Valencia.
The domestic architecture of a city convent is utilitarian mizuya feature spaces reserved for the high social classes of the same: palaces, Cason. The houses are the most common large city, unpretentious and stylistic heir of medieval architecture. Juan F. Peyron described the city as well, "Esa is Ciudad mizuya Antigua, malformed bastante mizuya grande mizuya y ..." You think the city of narrow streets and asphalt, kept too good image. Population growth implies a densification of the hull, where it begins to decrease the space inside and around the houses began to be higher, mizuya despite being controlled by the military mizuya issue, besides the densification nearby suburbs such as St. Vincent, Cross, Jesus and Roquetas. mizuya One of the main features of this time is the emergence of constructive balcony.
We make the following classifications of housing in the city: 1) c asa house, inhabited by artisans and merchants, derived from medieval type. On one or two floors, with the ground floor dedicated to bakery shop Connecting ...