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Boats moored in the marina at Fornells, Begur, Catalonia, Spain. The bay of Aiguablava is beyond, with the anchored boats
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Boats moored in the marina at Fornells, Begur, Catalonia, Spain. The bay of Aiguablava is beyond, with the anchored boats. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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Boats moored in the marina at Fornells, Begur, Catalonia, Spain. The bay of Aiguablava is beyond, with the anchored boats
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Boats moored in the marina at Fornells, Begur, Catalonia, Spain. The bay of Aiguablava is beyond, with the anchored boats. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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Boats moored in the marina at Fornells, Begur, Catalonia, Spain. The bay of Aiguablava is beyond, with the anchored boats
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The Archive of Days presentsBeta

BEFORE MODERN SPORT

Fornells Bay

How working water, access and organised sailing shaped Fornells Bay.

Scroll to read the water through time

Fornells is a village located in a bay in the north of the Balearic island of Menorca, Spain.

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BEFORE TOURISM

A working shore

The village was founded to serve a small defensive watch tower, built at the beginning of the 17th century as a defence against the Barbary pirates for whom Fornells Bay provided the perfect safe haven.

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ACCESS CHANGES

The route to the water

The surviving overview does not identify one decisive access date for Fornells Bay.

This edition therefore leaves that date open rather than turning gradual change into a false single event.

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Carta esferica de la Isla de Menorca ... Y Construida por el Brigadier de la Rl. Armada D. Vicente Tofino de S. Miguel. Ano
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Carta esferica de la Isla de Menorca ... Y Construida por el Brigadier de la Rl. Armada D. Vicente Tofino de S. Miguel. Ano

Carta esferica de la Isla de Menorca ... Y Construida por el Brigadier de la Rl. Armada D. Vicente Tofino de S. Miguel. Ano. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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Carta esferica de la Isla de Menorca ... Y Construida por el Brigadier de la Rl. Armada D. Vicente Tofino de S. Miguel. Ano
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Carta esferica de la Isla de Menorca ... Y Construida por el Brigadier de la Rl. Armada D. Vicente Tofino de S. Miguel. Ano

Carta esferica de la Isla de Menorca ... Y Construida por el Brigadier de la Rl. Armada D. Vicente Tofino de S. Miguel. Ano. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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Carta esferica de la Isla de Menorca ... Y Construida por el Brigadier de la Rl. Armada D. Vicente Tofino de S. Miguel. Ano
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ORGANISED SPORT

Sailing becomes organised

Fornells Bay is part of PeakWave's sailing catalogue.

The local record used here does not support a single founding date for the sport, so the exhibition treats its sporting identity as an accumulation of use, access and organisation.

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THE LIVING MAP

The mapped place

Fornells Bay is recorded at 40.050° N, 4.130° E as a coastal open venue. A course drawn here is temporary: wind, current, shore and marks determine the water that sailors actually meet.

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Boats moored in the marina at Fornells, Begur, Catalonia, Spain. The bay of Aiguablava is beyond, with the anchored boats
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Cala-d'Aiguablava-Begur 20180717 114120

Boats moored in the marina at Fornells, Begur, Catalonia, Spain. The bay of Aiguablava is beyond, with the anchored boats. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

Visual description
Boats moored in the marina at Fornells, Begur, Catalonia, Spain. The bay of Aiguablava is beyond, with the anchored boats
Nature
original
Medium
Open-licence photograph
Source
Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ledger AOD.EU.FORNELLS-BAY.V00

Cala-d'Aiguablava-Begur 20180717 114120

Boats moored in the marina at Fornells, Begur, Catalonia, Spain. The bay of Aiguablava is beyond, with the anchored boats. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

Visual description
Boats moored in the marina at Fornells, Begur, Catalonia, Spain. The bay of Aiguablava is beyond, with the anchored boats
Nature
original
Medium
Open-licence photograph
Source
Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

TODAY

Fornells Bay now

During construction, a small village was formed around the castle, occupied by construction workers and soldiers, this village becoming the basis of modern-day Fornells.

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THE LEDGER

Sources and credits

This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.

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Artefacts in order of appearance

  • Cala-d'Aiguablava-Begur 20180717 114120

    AOD.EU.FORNELLS-BAY.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Carta esferica de la Isla de Menorca ... Y Construida por el Brigadier de la Rl. Armada D. Vicente Tofino de S. Miguel. Ano

    AOD.EU.FORNELLS-BAY.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Editorial record

Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Fornells, Menorca overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.