Found a geometric map of Badalona, from the 19th century

The digitization of the documentary holdings of the archives allows curious people to find jewels like the one we present to you.

The lawyer Jordi Ballesteros, who a few years ago found and published a French map from 1697 that located the town of Badalona and the territory around it (a map preserved in the archives of Versailles), has now discovered a geometric plan of the town of Badalona, ​​which must be dated in 1839 and which is the first graphic representation on a scale known of a part of the town of Badalona.

This jewel, about which Jordi Ballesteros himself plans to publish an article in the next issue of the magazine Carrer dels Arbres, is preserved in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, in Madrid.

The town plan includes, in volume, the streets and houses built, the route of the streams of Canyet and Sant Jeroni, the area of Maignon urbanization (where construction was just beginning) and the main buildings : the church, the town hall, the squares. You can also see the sand dunes.

We will have to wait a while to know all the details. For now we enjoy the view of the fist town plan of Badalona.

Geometric plan of the town of Badalona. Author: Juan Soler y Cortina. 1839. Núm. A-1800 inventories. Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Madrid