El litoral gallego y el abastecimiento de sal a mediados del S. XVI

Abstract

The importance of the salt in the History, on his value economic and political, begins to made in the Low Middle Age. In the last of the XIV century, coinciding with the urban european increase and the rise of the fishing production, te salt will appear as an element of union between the producing areas and the consumers. The salt mine property problem on the part of the Monarchy had several alterations since the Ordinance of Najera in 1137 and the establishment of the Royal monopoly in 1338. In this research we analyse the situation which is created in 1564 with the news monopolistic measurings by Phelippe II and his practical application in the case of galician coastal. All seems to indicate that the Royal behaviour was contrary to the galician fishery development which they' ll come into a decline phase in the last of XVI century.