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Las desventuras del puerto de Gijón de 1742 a 1817. Resistir a los hombres y al océano
(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2021) García-Hurtado, M.R. (Manuel Reyes)
As of the 1740s the port of Gijon embarked on a long, complex process aimed at repairing, cleaning and improving its installations. The focus is placed here on the 75 years that, to our mind, were crucial for evincing the role of the different jurisdictions and corporations involved in this project, explaining the difficulties posed by all of them and the changes taking place in the management model of the works. This analysis contributes to put forward a hypothesis justifying the shortcomings of Spanish port infrastructures which went beyond the problems arising from the hydraulic engineering works or their cost. These lay from the start in the fact that it was the localities that managed the reconstruction works, in the struggle over the control of the taxes with which the cost of the works was meant to be defrayed and, in the nineteenth century, in the appearance of institutions that openly questioned the previous practices. All of which led to a conflict of which the port would always be the main victim but, nevertheless, from which it would emerge stronger than before.