LEPE BEFORE AND AFTER Rocío Domínguez & Julia Blanco
Jul 08, 2015
LEPE BEFORE AND
AFTER
Rocío Domínguez & Julia Blanco
INDEX• The city.
• Economy.
- Lands and seas
• Society and ideology.
- people and customs.
• Art and culture.
• Political
INTRODUCTION
• Lepe is now considered almost a city. It‟s located in the
southwest of Spain. It has a surface area of 127.9 km2 and it
has a population of 28.000 people, of which over 5.000 are
immigrants. Lepe has 7 primary schools and 2 high schools. Its
main attractions are its 25 km of beaches where there are 7
attractive hotels. Its economy is based in the strawberries and
oranges cultivation and in the fishing too. The town hall has 21
MPs.
ECONOMY
Strawberries form 74% of irrigate
farming and oranges form 53% of
woody crop.
Strawberries exports are very
important.
AGRICULTURE AND FISHING
Fishing: is practiced inshore. Also
practiced offshore fishing in countries
like Morocco, Senegal, Mozambique,
Angola and Mauritania.
70 years ago…
•The economy was based in
traditional agriculture and in the
trawling.
•The trade was based mainly in the
exportation of figs and almonds.
•Fishing: draughts boat pit that were
fishing near the coast (sardines and
tuna)
INDUSTRY
• Industry: based on construction, greenhouses, harvesting equipmentNow:
• was based on the grocery, “zampuzos”, mills, shoes and hats
Before:
•TRADE
Gastronomy: nowadays we can show off our
varied diet (Mediterranean) with all types of
food.
70 years ago…
•Gastronomy: years before, people
only consumed what they produced
in the village.
TURISM
BEFORE
•Tourism: 25km of beaches in La
Antilla and Islantilla, golf courses,
malls, hotels, nightclubs.
TRANSPORT
•Now buses and cars are
faster and confortable
Transport, 70 years ago…
•there was a train as a mean of
transport and few cars.
SOCIETY AND IDEOLOGY
•STREETS AND PEOPLE
SOCIETY AND IDEOLOGY
• GROUPS
Lepe is a multicultural city, there are a lot of
nationalities: Morocco, Romania, Poland,
South American people and Argelia.
•FASHION
Here we can find international brands:
Springfield, Benetton, Inside, Zara.
Before people wear hats and walking
sticks and women always wore a fan
and veils.
•PASTIME People were used to popular parties in
the squares and (summer cinema) at
night.
Now young people go to the
shopping centre and disco.
• They enjoy with San Roque’s team since 1956, it
creator was a priest.
• 300 suport our local team.
You can see here, the website of the team:
ART
• Nowadays cities are better careful than before. There are
more squares because people meet there.
• People usually go to the theater, that is the newest construction.
CULTURE
• SCHOOLS AND HIGHSCHOOLS
Nowadays schools have girls and boys
in the same class and centre, but…
in the XX century school was divided by genres:
boys to a school and girls to another.
•CHURCH
Church played an important role in XX
century. The church was destroyed in the
XVIII century in the Lisbon earthquake.
•COSTUMS
The most important holiday is the
pilgrimage of Bella‟s Virgin that is
celebrated the second weekend
of May.
„La Bella‟
•Other holidays are “La Bella” y
“San Roque” from 13 to 16
August.
POLITICAL-Town Hall: nowadays the town hall has
21 MPs
-Priest: was a very important figure in this
time along with the mayor.
- Army: at that time, all men were going
to do national service with 18 years old.
- At that time Lepe lived in a dictatorship;
nowadays we enjoy of a democracy.
CONCLUSION
• Lepe is in the way of progress, it has a better present and
it can continue in the same way thanks to a higher
technology.