The two sides of Cantón Pequeño, a busy street in the port city of A Coruña on the north-western tip of Spain, link the past with the future.
One one side lie the quays from which successive waves of emigrants set sail in the early and mid-20th century for Latin America and northern Europe, abandoning the impoverished, rural region of Galicia, isolated from the rest of Spain by poor communications and lack of development.
