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Old Town Route
Next to the tower of the walls that you can see in the Plaza de la Generalitat, you have an informative accessible panel: it is accessible to wheelchairs, has large print for people with visual impairment, visual text in Spanish, Valencian and English, has a relief map and text in…
Former La Bomba Street (panel no.1)
At this point there was for two centuries an important well that supplied Villajoyosa and gave its name to the street, 'Carrer la Bomba', a name lost over the years and which is remembered by this plaque.
The Manises potter Leopoldo Mora was the author of the panel, placed in 2016 and made of tiles based on the only old photograph that we have left.
The old Pump of the Beach already appears in texts from the early eighteenth century. On this date, as the danger of corsair attacks diminished, La Vila developed outside its walls, and the suburbs were born. To the east of the coast of La Mar, the suburb of San Agustín emerged, also known later as De la Bomba.
Formerly there was a wooden waterwheel that took advantage of a water table very close to the beach, and just in front of the Fonda, or historical anchorage, which served as a seaport at least since Phoenician times, 2,700 years ago until the new port was launched in the 30s of the 20th century. In fact, this water was especially important because it was used not only for consumption but also for the watering of vessels, that is, to carry water for the trip, making it a very important factor in the operations of the port. That waterwheel was later replaced by a lever-operated hand pump, which was protected under a roofed shed and dumped water into a sink. This shed is the one you see on the picture.
