Jávea.com | Xàbia.com
Search

'About Triana and its bridge', by Juan Bta. Codina Bas

August 08 from 2020 - 00: 40

The recently opened Puente de Triana has a history that should be remembered. The Gorgos or Xaló river, Cavanilles said, "... reached the eastern plains immediate to the Mediterranean it runs without restraint and floods them in its furious avenues, it covers many fields with silt, from higher ones it steals the topsoil, once it changes its channel, and then renders the bridges useless, and cuts communication for a few days, so that neither the cattle can return to their homes, nor the neighbors go out to cultivate their farms. "

It was not until 1550 that they found it necessary to build a bridge over the river to pass it in times of ravines. In 1861, prior to the demolition of the walls, due to the presence of two population centers in the coastal area, at the mouth of the river, in the so-called clot salat (vulgo gos salat) the Triana bridge was built to unite the two cores; in one the growing population of sailors and fishermen to which the cable office was added; in the other nucleus the administrative and commercial district grown around the Customs offices with the warehouses of the pass, the offices of the Navy Assistantship and the consular agents.

Some sailor or marine pilot who made trips to Seville, comparing the Triana bridge over the Guadalquivir, named the part of the Customs, Seville (today Sevilla street) and the marine part Triana (today Triana street) and the bridge, as in Seville was renamed the Triana bridge.

This location of the Triana bridge was at the end of the current Avda. Jaime I and located in the center of Avda. We have Triana street on one side and Seville street on the other. And it was in 1963 when the river was diverted to the south, locating itself at its current mouth.

But between 1861 and 1963 a lot happened. Next to the Triana bridge (Today Avda. Jaime I) there was a tenyidor and a place to chop the thread of pi with wooden clubs as well as a well with sea water to obtain the dye. This work was done to prevent the nets from rotting. In the closed period, the nets were washed with fresh water to release the salt, dried by spreading them in the sun and then collected to be used again in due course.

The net suffers a lot of deterioration due to the use of saltpeter, the remains of fish, crabs… sea shocks, dragging on muddy or rocky soils… and the material from which it was made was very diverse: esparto grass; the crown, the caseret and the hemp collar, the bands of cotó, torsal or linen. Twice a year the dyeing was carried out, sometimes three: For this, pi thread was crushed (generally els xiquets did this work); In a boiler it boiled for about two hours and when it was cold they passed that dye to a raft where they threw the net.

Valentín Ros, indicated to me that the two streets (of Triana and the parallel of Loreto) are the widest of Xàbia since in them the networks were spread to dry so they needed that space. And the nets were next to or in front of the sailors' houses.

In the part of Seville an ice factory was installed by the one who was mayor of Valencia in the first moments of the civil war, Cano Coloma, who saw the need that the ice fishermen had for fish and in those incipient years (the 50s of the last century) in which the population was stocking itself with (ice) refrigerators, coming and going to the ice factory was an incessant procession to buy a bar of ice, a half or a quarter of a bar depending on the space that the Fridge had for the counter. The refrigerators did not exist yet.

But the bridge was aging until on January 3, 1942, the municipal corporation agreed to prohibit the transit of all kinds through the Triana bridge and it was ordered to raise some partitions at each entrance of the bridge, since due to a recent flood there was a detachment of part of the work and threatened ruin. Some time before, between the years 1935-36, the bridge that would replace it had been built.

On October 2 and 3, 1957, l'aiguà took place, which damaged the entire channel and the Triana bridge was seriously damaged and affected.

On April 6, 1961, it was agreed to expropriate land in the Mezquida area to carry out the deviation of the Gorgos River.

In 1963 the riverbed was diverted to its current situation and in 1966 it was agreed that the old riverbed should be dried up and cleaned up for its integration into the urban fabric of Duanes.

In recent years the bridge over the diverted river showed signs of deterioration and did not allow the continuous passage of the number of vehicles as well as the excess cargo whose passage had been limited. Today the new structure, inaugurated on August 7, 2020, with a single eye, stands tall with the hope of giving communication, now already, to a larger area of ​​Xàbia.

If the previous one was to unite Triana with Duanes, now what you want is to save the riverbed and unite this area with the Arenal and with the entire area that towards Cap Prim and de la Nau, extends the term of Xàbia.

Now to wait for him long life.

John the Baptist Codina Bas

Leave a comment

    28.803
    9.411
    1.020