Amarre

The application puts in value points of the coast of the bay of Pasaia in which ships were moored in the past. Today many of them go unnoticed, but are indications that show how and where the boats moored before the modern docks were built, when the entrance channel was the only anchorage available for large ships. The long history of Pasaia includes the presence of medieval merchant fleets, whalers that went to Newfoundland, frigates that went to Venezuela for cocoa and tobacco and the last great Basque bacaladero fleet already in the second half of the 20th century. All of them used these tie points intensively.
Through the application you can visit 7 sites in which there are moorings that have survived urban pressure. The oldest can be holes in the rock made perhaps in medieval times; others consist of cannons stuck upside down on the rocks along the entrance channel, and the most modern are iron eyebolts and rings where the boats of the steam age were moored.
Many of these moorings are the last remaining vestige in Pasaia of the powerful Royal Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas, which owned most of the existing ones throughout the 18th century.
There are other indications distributed in the area that the visitor, after having experienced the application, can recognize and identify; Thanks to this, it is possible to realize that there was a past very linked to the present of the port that has left traces that would otherwise be ignored.
The information provided consists of texts, photos and old plans with superimposed images that are visualized when touched.