The beach to which only women were going

Marín

Marín was a tourist town where, at the beginning of the twentieth century, visitors separated by sex to bathe

Today it sounds like a joke, something unthinkable.Its mere existence would cause manifestations, Internet campaigns and even parliamentary debates.However, in Marín, at the end of the 19th century and during the early twentieth years, tourists went down to the beach separated by sex.Men had to go to Carreiro Dos Homes, further from the urban area, and for women was Carreiro das Mulleres, which was closer, but also hidden by rocks, trees and ramps.It is a part of the Marine history that, due to their rarity, the new generations do not know and the elders leave parked in the trunk of memories.These sands do not exist today.Not even your name.Its location has been lost, because the entire coast was transformed with the works of the original port of Marín, in the military dock, and with the disappearance of the Castillo neighborhood with the works of the Naval Base.

A postcard photo is the best known image of this beach.Two ramps are seen, with children playing in the sand, a coast line cut with rocks, two pines and several houses nearby.It is striking that on the shore there are booths, primitive changing rooms that people used to change their clothes.At that time, the all would end the offender in court and still teach a leg beyond the knee could be considered scandalous for public morals.Bikinis?Nor dreamed of that.Bailers?Yes, but not teach much.Were indeed other times.Another world.If any of those primitive tourists travel to a beach today, say a nudist like Bascuas, would cause a heart attack.Well, surely it would also be horrified with any other.Tastes have changed.The company has advanced and that of separating by sex to take a dip, a copy of the restriction that also existed in schools -anulas for boys and others for girls -are norms that have fortunately passed to the past.And the same has also happened to those swimsuits who suffocated more than facilitating swimming.That under the sun of August is hot!And a lot!

In an old photo album another photo of that Carreiro das Mulleres appears.The image comes from another perspective.The same stone boardwalk is seen, with the ramps, the Marín dock with what looks like coal mountains in the background.Your four wooden booths to change.And the stamp of women dressed up on the sand.Seeing her one make him doubt if someone really bathed or if they only gathered there to socialize.

In the memory of several families of Banda do Río, the neighborhood closest to the old Carreiros, the memory is kept.There were those who swam, but not all who were doing.There could be another reason, some neighbors point out that something was paid for using those booths.There were not everyone's economies with the ability to pay their use.

Carreiro Dos Homes was exclusive to men, but this sand has not transcended photos as their female counterpart.In Portocelo, which today is the most familiar beach for the Marinenses, just someone was there.They stayed very far, said the elders.

Most of the users of these roads, the primitive tourists, were called a bathers.The people inside Galicia, who could not pay like those of the cities, came to Marín past the harvest to "take the bathrooms".They stayed in neighborhood houses and spent a weeks.The Marinenses called them the "poubans", but that is another story.

Carreiro das Mulleres was closer to the town, that of the farthest men

They had booths to be able to change and divered with huge swimsuits

Both sands were buried with the works of the port and the military enclosure

© Copyright La Voz de Galicia S.A.Polygon of Sabón, Arteixo, A Coruña (Spain) registered in the Mercantile Registry of A Coruña in volume 2438 of the file, general section, to folios 91 and following, sheet C-2141.CIF: A-15000649.