Abstract

REIMAO COSTA, Miguel  and  BATISTA, Desidério. Contribution to the Study of Cacela's Heritage: Cartography, Architecture and Landscape in Portugal's Eastern Algarve Context. Apuntes [online]. 2013, vol.26, n.1, pp.62-77. ISSN 1657-9763.

This article focuses on the old cartography of Cacela, in southern Portugal, with the aim of reinterpreting its transformation over time, considering thematics such as architecture, urbanism and landscape simultaneously. The understanding of this transformation is marked by major maps and plans of Cacela, that coincide with the beginning of the seventeenth century, the nearing of the end of the Ancien Régime and the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, associating each of these times to a particular mode of representation. The interpretation of these different maps is combined with the reading of historic written sources of each period, culminating in the design of a final plan that represents the reconstitution of the urban area and the landscape of Cacela in the middle of the twentieth century. This work is part of a broader research on small clusters in different geographic subunits of southern Portugal, which includes the study of landscape and urban form as well as the full survey of the entire settlement. It confirms Cacela as a small town in the historic scattered population of the lower Algarve, subjected to a significant transformation between the late nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century.

Keywords : Cartographic heritage; cultural landscapes; rural settlement; urban morphology; traditional architecture; Urban Development-History-Cacela (Portugal); architecture and society; history; urban space.

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