TY - CHAP
T1 - The Water Supply and Sewage Networks in Sixteenth Century Lisbon
T2 - Drawing the Renaissance City
AU - Teixeira, André
AU - Silva, Rodrigo Banha da
N1 - UIDB/04666/2020
UIDP/04666/2020
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Towards the end of the fifteenth century, Portuguese monarchs began implementing a sewage network and the general cleaning of their capital city. The authorities also set out plans to enable access to clean water with the opening of wells and the building or renovation of public fountains, not only for the benefit of its inhabitants, but also to supply the needs of Lisbon’s dynamic waterfront, where maritime and commercial activities were concentrated. This emerged simultaneously to an urban regulatory process with the clear aim of bestowing monumentality on the city, especially along the riverside area, where the king and the elites had established their palaces. Thus, during the sixteenth century, water and its control were not only a matter of necessity, but also a sign of modernity. The past few years of rescue archaeology have provided a huge amount of information on Lisbon’s water systems prior to the 1755 earthquake, with most having been built in the sixteenth century. These data are here cross-referenced, both against sections of its architectonic remains and, especially, against archival documentary sources. This interdisciplinary approach has led to far more accurate knowledge about the importance of water in these early modern societies.
AB - Towards the end of the fifteenth century, Portuguese monarchs began implementing a sewage network and the general cleaning of their capital city. The authorities also set out plans to enable access to clean water with the opening of wells and the building or renovation of public fountains, not only for the benefit of its inhabitants, but also to supply the needs of Lisbon’s dynamic waterfront, where maritime and commercial activities were concentrated. This emerged simultaneously to an urban regulatory process with the clear aim of bestowing monumentality on the city, especially along the riverside area, where the king and the elites had established their palaces. Thus, during the sixteenth century, water and its control were not only a matter of necessity, but also a sign of modernity. The past few years of rescue archaeology have provided a huge amount of information on Lisbon’s water systems prior to the 1755 earthquake, with most having been built in the sixteenth century. These data are here cross-referenced, both against sections of its architectonic remains and, especially, against archival documentary sources. This interdisciplinary approach has led to far more accurate knowledge about the importance of water in these early modern societies.
KW - Water Supply
KW - Sewage Networks
KW - Renaissance
KW - Lisbon
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089946068&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-34061-2_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-34061-2_1
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-030-34060-5
T3 - Trends in the History of Science
SP - 3
EP - 24
BT - The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula
A2 - Rodrigues, Ana Duarte
A2 - Marín, Carmen Toribio
PB - Springer Nature
CY - Birkhäuser, Cham
ER -