HE Alicante City Council Archaeological Museum Working on the 18th edition of the Excavation Plan this summer. This Ifach Medieval Towninside calf. This year, some work is focused on finalizing the excavations and documenting the site’s so-called “West Gate”, where technicians unearth the collapsed arch found in last year’s campaign.
MARQ archaeologist, Jose Luis Menendezleads the work team supported by a group twelve volunteers Archeology, History, Art History and Restoration students from Valencia and Alicante universities. The research work features collaboration between Calpe City Council and the Department of Environment, Water Infrastructures and District.
Call castrum de Calp, a district that currently houses the municipality of Calp, strategic region Settled by settlers from the north of the peninsula, it shapes the existing urban and regional structure. La Pobla d’Ifach was built to concentrate the displaced population and to structure this newly conquered region. turn of the century.
First Archaeological research was carried out in 2005. At the entrances to La Pobla, the so-called PThe North Gate, equipped with a bell tower and a very unique civic building described as a domus or residence of members of the House of Lauria, with the large church of Madona Santa María next to it. and its representatives. III of Aragon between the 13th and 14th centuries.
Juan de Dios Navarro, MP for culture, said: “These actions Promoted by the State Legislature regarding our medieval heritage They are currently one of the most solid references for the work on the formation of our Alicante and Valencia lands in that historical period, and they also have the support of the Institution’s Architecture department”.
MARQ has been different since the day it opened. exhibits of pieces discovered on site “El caballero d´Ifach” as de la Pobla d’Ifach, “Los Pilares del Reino” in the Gothic capital La Pobla, and “Calpe. Archeology and Museum” where the archaeological discoveries of La Pobla d’Ifach were shown to the public for the first time.