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Mequinenza · Bajo Cinca

Credits and licences

The Poble Vell (the old village) of Mequinenza was demolished from 1970 onwards to make way for the Riba-roja reservoir. This 3D reconstruction is a work in progress: each house’s record says what is known about it and where that comes from (documented, inferred or hypothetical).

Maps and terrain

  • American aerial survey, Series B (1956–57). Orthophoto from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), historical PNOA. CC BY 4.0, © Instituto Geográfico Nacional.
  • Latest PNOA. IGN orthophoto. CC BY 4.0, © Instituto Geográfico Nacional.
  • Terrain. PNOA-LiDAR (IGN/CNIG) and the IGN’s MDT05. CC BY 4.0, © Instituto Geográfico Nacional. The 1965 terrain, with the river at its level at the time, is the project’s own reconstruction.
  • Municipal boundary. © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the ODbL licence (openstreetmap.org/copyright).
  • Nucli urbà de la vila de Mequinensa (1968). A map with the street names, used as a reference; it is not reproduced on this website.

Every source, with its citation, is in the catalogue of sources.

Photographs

The houses are worked out from old photographs: the photographic collection of Mequinenza Town Council, the ‘Recuerdos de papel’ books and others. They are used as a reference for the reconstruction and are not published on this website.

Those cited in the records are listed in Sources, by their identifier and collection, with no image or caption until there is permission to publish them.

The model

  • Houses, streets, squares, steps, Lo Muro, the church and Ca la Vila. Models by the Poble Vell de Mequinenza 3D project. For now they are provisional shapes, refined area by area using the photos.
  • ‘Weathered’ textures. Generated with artificial intelligence from photos of the period, as a visual finish. They are not evidence of anything.
  • Textures for the viewer’s ‘Clean’ look. From the free Poly Haven library (CC0), adjusted by the project.
  • The castle. It will not appear in the images on this website until the author of its model gives permission.

Every image on this website is labelled with its type (‘3D reconstruction · 1965’, ‘Working image · 3D model’, ‘Our own map’) and says whether the colour is interpretive or the textures are AI-generated. For how it is all done, see How it was made.

Software

  • Viewer: Three.js (MIT licence).
  • Modelling: Blender.
  • Typefaces: Newsreader and Archivo (SIL Open Font License), served from this website.
  • These pages: generated with TypeScript and Vite (MIT licence) from the project’s database.

Contact

To contribute photos, memories or corrections, or for anything else: [email protected]. To find out how to help, see Contribute. Emails do not always get a reply: the website is made by one person in their spare time, who reads what comes in when they can. Everything is kept and taken into account. All help is given freely, to make the website better.