The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Huts, peasants and workers housing
The 1950s. Map minute MT50 which locates Los Hurones dam construction site, the Hurones town (downstream) and the cluster of huts in El Rodadero (upstream), with a layer of the modern topographical map highlighting the reservoir. Minute and map from the 'Instituto Geográfico Nacional' (Spain) © Beatriz Díaz Martínez

Different huts built with local materials
1950s. Making the roof of the family dwelling. Carmelo Cantillo, on the left, holding a bundle of broom. Beside him, his nephew Carmelo and Manolo Núñez, on a wooden ladder. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo.

Boys and girls help to ensure a livelihood
Circa 1962. José Pan Pérez and Ignacia Pérez Aguilar with ten of their thirteen children. To José Pan’s left, dressed in dark clothes is Paquita Pan, the eldest daughter. To Ignacia Pérez’s right, wearing a tie, José Pan. Algar (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Silvia Pan

Taverns, places for men to relate
1950s. Rafael’s tarvern, in El Rodadero ranch, near Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). From the left, the photo shows Segundo Suárez, an unidentified person, José Benítez (holding a syphon), next Reyes, behind Rafael the owner of the tavern, and, in the foreground, Manolo ‘el Beato’, who worked freelance making coal ovens. Photograph courtesy of Pepe Benítez

Amenities in the workers’ town
Early 1950s. Dining-room at the hostelry in Los Hurones (Cádiz) town. In the foreground, facing the camera, is Enrique Tizón, topographer. Photograph courtesy of Nuria Tizón Nieves

Working conditions
1963, June. 5 workers pouring and spreading concrete. Entrance to the dam spillway. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of José Melguizo

The human cost of the construction work
Circa 1959. Manuel Aranda, en la izquierda, y Jesús Pais, en la derecha, en la sala de máquinas de Los Hurones (Cádiz). Fotografía cortesía de Virgilio Pais

Women and poverty in the workers’ environment
1958. Lucina Linares bathes a newborn in the installations at the hospital of ‘Portolés y Compañía S.A.’ company in the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

Private lessons and self-managed learning
1958, December the 3rd. Pupils of Guadalupe, a private teacher in the workers town. Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of María Fernández

A dynamic community in its brief time
1961. Three generations of workers gathered together for a wedding. On the right of the group are Vicente Aycart Benzo (engineer at the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir), Francisco Sáinz de la Mora and José Melguizo (engineer assistants), and Ramiro Rozados (work foreman), among other company staff. Town at Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepita Blanco.

Creating an identity out of cultural diversity
1956. ‘Los Hurones’ football team in their new white strip. Among other players are Luis Prieto, a mechanic, and Enrique Tizón, a draughtsman. Town of Los Hurones (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Luis Prieto

In search of another job
Circa 1954. Pepa Ortega as a girl with Dolores López, her father’s cousin, who had a tavern among the huts at Los Hurones dam. Los Hurones town (Cádiz). Photograph courtesy of Pepa Ortega

From a workers’ town to a tourist village
Circa 1961. Carlos Guerra, Macrina Romero, Maribel Guerra and Mari Solera, residents in Los Hurones (Cádiz). In the background, Los Hurones dam and the cement silos. Photograph courtesy of Macrina Romero

The workers’ memory thread
2022. José Pan talks with his wife, Ani Naranjo, about the place of his childhood in the Exhibition on the history of Los Hurones, during the presentation of the project in San José del Valle (Cádiz), on November 10, 2022. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The workers’ town, an axis of the industrial paternalism
1957. The right side of the town of Los Hurones (Cádiz) and the bridge for access over the river Majaceite from the service road which leads to the left bank. Taken from: ‘Abastecimiento de agua a la zona gaditana. El pantano de Los Hurones’ (Water supply to the Cádiz area. Los Hurones dam). Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

The history hidden in the landscape
2022. A view of the overflow canals and a canalised stretch of the river Majaceite from the bridge at Los Hurones dam (Cádiz). To the right behind the construction, we can see the pine trees which replaced the original forest to prevent erosion. In the background, the workers’ town. Photograph by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco

Different origins, similar life-paths
1948. Carmelo Cantillo with a dog in his arms and his sister Juana with a cat, near their hut on the building site of El Pintao dam (Seville). Photograph courtesy of Carmelo Cantillo

Chalets, cheap houses and huts
1958 (above). Main wall of the engineer’s house. ‘Third project reformed (electric cable, housing and roads)’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. 1954 (below). Semi-storey walls of the ‘cheap houses’ from ‘Project for complementary works for housing for workers’, by Vicente Aycart Benzo. Documents from Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir. Los Hurones dam archive (Cádiz). Photographs by Juan Carrasco © Juan Carrasco