La Guaira and its Royal way to Caracas, an important point within the Hispanic colonial Caribbean, relevance of its continental connotation. Approach, space - urban - constructive evolution. Primary description of the defensive system designed for the site

Román Fermín, Luís Guillermo (2005) La Guaira and its Royal way to Caracas, an important point within the Hispanic colonial Caribbean, relevance of its continental connotation. Approach, space - urban - constructive evolution. Primary description of the defensive system designed for the site. In: 15th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Monuments and sites in their setting - conserving cultural heritage in changing townscapes and landscapes’, 17 – 21 oct 2005, Xi'an, China. [Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier]

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La Guaira and its surroundings considered like natural landscape (El Ávila National Park) and cultural landscape, frame the perspective of the sociocultural and space development, within the American colonial commerce with the great large cities of Caribe, and inland with the city of Caracas, from century XVII, reaching greater height in century XVIII. It constitutes a point of great strategic value within Camino Real intercontinental with the greatest traffic in the colony. The investigation will results in the definition of the layout and the insertion of this sector within the same one. Important to stand out that the work se will carry out with participation a interdisciplinary team from which it is managed to obtain a vision of the port jointly with the defense of the capital of Province (Caracas).We will include different stages from urban growth and of the constructed defensive system in its surroundings (extra e intrawalls), with the inventory of the military constructions that still remain like registry instrument the card designed by the committee from cultural itineraries. Thus we will be presenting the logical illation of construction of batteries, hornabeques, alcabalas and others, that were conforming the defensive system of the Camino Real to Caracas.

Type:	Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier (Article)
Auteurs:	Auteurs E-mail Román Fermín, Luís Guillermo NON SPECIFIÉ
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés libres:	cultural route; cultural landscape; colonial period; military architecture; fortifications; fortified architecture; forts; urban growth
Sujets:	H.TYPES DE PATRIMOINE > 07. Itinéraires culturels H.TYPES DE PATRIMOINE > 09. Monuments historiques
Nom du monument, ville, site, musée:	La Guaira, Venezuela; Camino Real
Collections spéciales:	Scientific Symposium (ICOMOS General Assemblies)
Volume de la collection spéciale:	2005, 15th
Déposé par:	Jose Garcia
Date de dépôt:	07 décembre 2010 09:45
Dernière modification:	13 janvier 2011 19:15
Références:	1. Amodio, Emanuele, Rodrigo Navarrete y Ana Cristina Rodriguez. (1997): El camino de los españoles. (The Passage of the Spaniards) Caracas: Instituto de Patrimonio Cultural (Cultural Patrimony Institute). 2. Armas Chitty (de), José Antonio. (1992): “Un camino que tiene siete nombres” (A way that has seven names) En Caminos de arrieros. (In Way of Muleteers) Caracas: Ex Libris. 3. Beroes P, Manuel (2000): “La Guaira” En Diccionario Multimedia de Historia de Venezuela. (In Multimedia Diccionary of Venezuelan History) Caracas: Fundación Polar. (Foundation Polar). 4. Gasparini, Grazziano (1982): La Guaira: Orígenes históricos, morfología urbana.(Historic origins, urban morphology) Caracas: Ministerio de Información y Turísmo. (Ministry of Information and Tourism) 5. González F, Luis Enrique (1982) La Guaira: Conquista y Colonia. (Conquest and Colony) Caracas: S/E. 6. Lucena Samoral, Manuel. (1984): El Comercio Colonial caraqueño a fines del período español. Mercados, comerciantes e instrumentos de cambio. (The Caracas’s Colonial commerce at the end of the Spanish period. Markets, merchants and exchange instruments) Caracas: Universidad Santa María (Santa María University). 7. Rivero, Manuel: (1982): Camino a la mar. (Way to the sea) Caracas: Junta Directiva del Centro Simón Bolívar (Board of Directors of the Simón Bolívar Center) 8. Valery, Rafael. (1978): Los caminos de Venezuela. (The Ways of Venezuela) Caracas: Cuadernos Lagoven. (Lagoven Notebooks)
URI:	https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/445

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