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It is undeniable that industrial activity remains a core sector in the economic functioning of the territories. But the spatial strategies of companies are not stable, they have been modified looking to monetize their benefits. These processes affect the status of the territories where they are located. This paper focuses on reviewing the significance of these processes within a traditional industry, the wood processing industry, and within a specific territory, Galicia which possesses raw material and which has always used the resource, first as a craft and later, as a manufacturing sector, always with the main goal of adapting to new business strategies. In this work the past and present to adapt to possible changes in operating strategies of processing activities is observed and how it translates into the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares the economic image of seventeenth-century Spain given by foreign travellers with that offered by the arbitristas, examining the principal similarities and differences. Specifically, it analyses the following issues: the consideration of the natural resources base, the vision of national character and its relation to productive activities, and the perception of the economic situation and the causes of backwardness. The aim is to contrast the views of those who were thinking 'from the inside' about the causes of the evident decline of the country, with the free and uncensored gaze of foreign visitors, who, despite the obvious constraints and limitations, tended to focus on the most striking and different aspects they found compared to the reality of their own countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]