Carreteras y caminos alicantinos en el primer tercio del siglo XX

Abstract

Once the main targets in the province of Alicante road networks had been achieved during the pevians century, especially those linking the city capital with Alcoy, la Marina, la Meseta and Orihuela, the policy followed in this field in the first third of century in the South of the Valencian Region are determined, as a miror like reflection of what is happening in the rest of the country, by two fundamental lines of action: to improve the quality of the most important routes and increase the side road system, building a complex web of roads linking the railway and ports with the more distant geographical areas. This produces changes in the agricultural backgrounds and a positive improvement in the industrializing process, and helps to root capitalism creating a real home market, cohile the city and town network consolidates being this fact especially obvions is the main crossroads.