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Without doubt a central aspect, as it couldn’t be any other way in a completely maritime city, forever looking towards atlantic horizons and the mariñán estuaries in the distance, and in which you can still see in photographs the intense filling work which over time went from being an almost island like tombola to a distinctly peninsular shape in the absolute presence of the sea. Be it the Orzán sea, with its epic of storms and giant waves or the calm interior sea of the estuary which permitted the landing of the pioneer aeroplanes in the air conquest. A sea that at times came up to the door way in La Marina and which had long beaches on both sides of the city, and drowsily approached Cantón, Linares Rivas or La Palloza,. Because in La Coruña, to leave the house was to go on board. For this reason these are so many views of the sea. And the Port: A central factor in the human, labour, urban and economic evolution of the city. In times more of a modest Port than the bigger ambition and diversification of today. Thus in the photos, maritime, fishing and port references are seen at different times. The Monte Umbe letting go of its moorings. The unloading of fish and the hum of the markets with its swarming human weave. The commercial traffic helped by cranes, that of wood and other merchandise piled up on the docks. The emigrant odyssey with its heart breaking cargo towards the Americas. The Darsena dry dock, so charming and evocative. The long nets stretched out to dry in La Palloza square where an Argentinian theatre and other fair attractions visited from a time that reminds us of Pessoa and his maritime evocations in the mouth of the Tajo , or of those present day ones which like huge buildings or enormous white whales , grant La Coruña one of its more luminous, emotive and paradigmatic images. The wide views of the present Paseo Marítimo, in the oceanic frame of the city.
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