Abstract:

The use of the most favourable areas for transit and circulation along the geography has been a constant during history. Since ancient times, the most easily accessible places have been used to connect two spaces and for the movement of people, products or ideas. Mountain passes, valleys, natural fords in rivers are the places par excellence for the passage between different geographical areas. This fact has been used at different times to build roads and highways, and was the main reason to build a road or to discard its layout until not so many decades ago. In the present case, and in the following pages, we will focus on the use of the ravines of the Plana de Castelló as historical roads and their insertion into a larger road network. Dry riverbeds have conditioned these networks, but also the other way round, through a process of anthropisation of water resources.