ABSTRACT

Once arrived in Valencia between the bridges of San José and Serranos, the logs were extracted from the water and a portion of the embankment parapet was disassembled to enable the provisional slope built with the same logs to connect the water level with the upper promenade. The wood was pulled by animals along this surface and piled up in order to dry up and be marked by the delegate of the Carpenters’ guild. The location of this open area was close to the walls of the city until the beginning of the 19th century, when the logs were piled up in Llano de la Zaidia on the other side of the river (Fig. 3).