Repoblación agraria secular y colonización de posguerra. La Colonia de Aguas Vivas en Alzira, Valencia

Abstract

Since the mid-nineteenth century, Spain was trying to recover the depopulated rural areas for their demographic and agricultural development. A continuous legislative evolution, through successive regulatory provisions, would try to provide solutions from a normative approach. After the Spanish Civil War, colonization models would be proposed that would have productive endowments and other equipment in order to restructure the rural environment and avoid its depopulation. In this context, would appear the Colonia de Aguas Vivas in Alzira, Valencia, an agricultural settlement developed around an antituberculous hospital. As a main conclusion, although this work shares some of the characteristics of other colonization settlements, it has promotive, functional, urbanistic, architectural and stylistic particularities that advise its necessary appreciation. © 2020, Ministerio de Fomento. All rights reserved.