Download the entire book in PDF format by clicking on the image Published in 2008, this book is an evocative journey through the literary and graphic Valladolid in the late nineteenth and early twentieth signed the musicologist and ethnographer Joaquín Díaz in what he called "an adventure, a nice summary, a virtual tour" so it was the city a century or so.
More than two hundred black and white photographs, from private collections and archives such as the Provincial Government and the Municipality of the capital, illustrate "Valladolid 100 years ago," the title of a book that marked the baptism of Castilla editorial Traditional Manuel Bahia property.
The cover image, "as if a painting of the period in question", is dated 1908 and reflects the image of the city a century ago in its main actors: a bourgeois in the foreground as a representative of a higher social class and two peasants with blanket over his shoulder portrayed in the Plaza Mayor .
is precisely here where the author of the book provides the reader with the start of a journey for which he asks "provided only" exercising "his spirit of observation", and "let your imagination roam the streets of Valladolid as would a century ago. "
The trip, which ends in the streets of doctrine and Pisuerga nearby bridge as a symbol of urban sprawl would come over the years, scrutinizes corners, nooks, corners, streets and squares, also evoked by businesses located there and which advertising time on pages of the book from most of the newspaper "El Norte de Castilla."
In the early twentieth century the city had 70,000 souls, and some 5,000 buildings, increased death, the birth rate began to stagnate and in it lived a growing industrial bourgeoisie, mainly related to the milling industry, with a large working class be basically the railway company.
material heritage, but also the intangible suggested from the main characters photographs, highlighted as the main attraction of a city almost unrecognizable by those who now have less than fifty years old. Among the repertoire
absence of this "virtual tour and diachronic", Joaquín Díaz missing the Prairie Theatre, next to Campo Grande by resonances and experiences that he experienced as a child and teenager.
"Valladolid 100 years ago" is the first title of Traditional Castilla, directed by Spaniard Manuel Bahia editor based in Urueña (Valladolid).
-Source: El Norte de Castilla
More than two hundred black and white photographs, from private collections and archives such as the Provincial Government and the Municipality of the capital, illustrate "Valladolid 100 years ago," the title of a book that marked the baptism of Castilla editorial Traditional Manuel Bahia property.
The cover image, "as if a painting of the period in question", is dated 1908 and reflects the image of the city a century ago in its main actors: a bourgeois in the foreground as a representative of a higher social class and two peasants with blanket over his shoulder portrayed in the Plaza Mayor .
is precisely here where the author of the book provides the reader with the start of a journey for which he asks "provided only" exercising "his spirit of observation", and "let your imagination roam the streets of Valladolid as would a century ago. "
The trip, which ends in the streets of doctrine and Pisuerga nearby bridge as a symbol of urban sprawl would come over the years, scrutinizes corners, nooks, corners, streets and squares, also evoked by businesses located there and which advertising time on pages of the book from most of the newspaper "El Norte de Castilla."
In the early twentieth century the city had 70,000 souls, and some 5,000 buildings, increased death, the birth rate began to stagnate and in it lived a growing industrial bourgeoisie, mainly related to the milling industry, with a large working class be basically the railway company.
material heritage, but also the intangible suggested from the main characters photographs, highlighted as the main attraction of a city almost unrecognizable by those who now have less than fifty years old. Among the repertoire
absence of this "virtual tour and diachronic", Joaquín Díaz missing the Prairie Theatre, next to Campo Grande by resonances and experiences that he experienced as a child and teenager.
"Valladolid 100 years ago" is the first title of Traditional Castilla, directed by Spaniard Manuel Bahia editor based in Urueña (Valladolid).
-Source: El Norte de Castilla
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