Santos Ángel de Ochandátegui y su dictamen sobre un Canal navegable entre la presa del Bocal y el Cantábrico

Abstract

The intention of this communication is to diclose the close relationship that existed between the Illustration and public works. The basis of this theory is the report by S.A. de Ochandátegui on the possibility of tracing a navigable channel between the Bocal dam in Tudela and the coast of the Bay of Biscay. For this purpose we have centred our attention on the criteria of political economy as stated by the reformist politicians and above all by the most outstanding of them all, F.J. Argáiz, from Navarre. We have studied his case with the purpose of analysing his dual identity as a politician and architect. Such a dual understanding of politics and architecture conditioned the nature of that report.