One of the characteristics elements of the Maresme area are the “rials”. A “rial” is a short and stationary water flow. A “rial” basin is normally dry but during the storms, when it transport a large amount of water towards the sea.
Due to the “rials” stationary condition, they have been abused by humans since ancient times, and specially during the construction boom in the last decades of the XX century. Today it is not possible to find a non urbanized rial, even though some of them have sections that has not been altered yet.
In Arenys de Mar village we find the “rial llarg”. It is not a rial to go to relax and take a walk, because it is fully urbanized and there is no vegetation. Although this fact, it is a place that awakes on me a lot of thoughts: It never let me indifferent.
The “rial llarg” was heavy transformed by human, destroyed we could say. Today, the remains of an ancient time of splendour, like the old gate that is shown in the picture, remember me that all human related is brief, temporary.
The “rial llarg” is a ruined location, and for me, an example of our behaviour as human race.
Arenys de Mar. Maresme.
This picture belongs to Album Imperfect Present