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- Title
Matanzas, astronomía y urbanismo.
- Authors
Vento, Ercilio A.
- Abstract
The design of the city of Matanzas fulfills an astronomical premise in order to make a path for Sun each journey for every day and month of the year, so that the Sun illuminates the Historical Centre alternating the facades of the east and the west, as long as those of the north and the south, in each station, they allow same regime of light according to the orientation of each street. There are not documents that prove the intentional character of this particularity, except assisting to the real ordinance that indicated, for the design of the city, a regime of such light that the Sun arrived first to the urban part and later to the water. Still when it was a casual phenomenon, the angular orientation of the streets north-south is parallel, while in the line this-west they follow significant angular variations that transform to the historical centre into an enormous solar clock. The real indication could not be completed, all time that the city is escorted by rivers to the north and the south and the bay for the east.
- Subjects
MATANZAS (Cuba); CUBA; URBAN planning; ASTRONOMY; BUILDING sunlight exposure; CITIES &; towns
- Publication
Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2011, Vol 32, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
1815-5898
- Publication type
Article