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GEHC visits the exhibition about the map of Huesca made by Casañal
The last November 25th a part of the Grup d’Estudis d’Història de la Cartografia (GEHC) visited the exhibition “Huesca y el plano de Dionisio Casañal” at the Círculo Oscense of the city. In this link there is more information. At the photohtaphy, left to right, José Luis Urteaga, José Ignacio Muro, Francesc Nadal, Joan Capdevila i Jose Luis Villanova, who is one […]
Exhibition “Huesca y el plano de Dionisio Casañal”
This year it is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the “Plano de Huesca” of Dionisio Casañal and the Archivo Municipal of the city has prepared an exhibition to present it. About this map, made in 1891, is necessary to highlight its detail (he worked mainly in scale 1:500) and its state of conservation (the sheets can be consulted aquí). In […]
Conferences about History of Spanish Urban Cartography
The Grup d’Estudis d’Història de la Cartografia (GEHC) and the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA) will organise the cycle of conferences Models a la cartografia urbana espanyola: una anàlisi historic between 2 and 4 of February of 2017 in Barcelona. The event pretends to make a clarifying contribution, thanks of main experts in the materia about the evolution of Spanish urban cartography from identification […]
Local government of Huesca publishes the map of 1891
Local Government of Huesca has just published in his web all of its cartographic drawings that made the topographer Dionisio Casañal en 1891 about the city and the municipality. It can be visualised and downloaded the Plano de Huesca in a scale of 1:500 (17 sheets), 1:1.000 (10 sheets) and 1:2.500 (1 sheet), and the Término Municipal de Huesca in a scale of […]