for decades excavated, researched, documented and museumized. Next step spread all this knowledge to share with the community. Archaeological guide with this premise Launch of Manises-Lucentum, a publication 115 pages with face pictures It can be obtained in MARQ and on the site itself.
“It is imperative for us to have a Roman city here and to be able to tell with a guide what it is and what it is,” says Manuel Olcina, Director of the Archaeological Museum of Alicante and author of this volume. Antonio Guilabert Mas and Eva Maria Tendero Porras. “As a museum, we have a duty to not only do good scientific work, but also to convey it to the community, and this is very necessary at the Lucentum site.”
guide, published Spanish, Valencian and Englishaffects the graphical aspect of its pages so that the user can tour the ancient city thanks to written descriptions not only of what he saw but also of how it was back then, but gives information about the whole. also recreations that give meaning to the ruins It was rescued from the structures, the layout and the route through its streets.
“We made it as graphical as possible and simple language, but with all due diligence“This is like a summary of all the research we’ve done on the deposit over the years; The essence of more than 60 publications we’ve made over 40 years”.
The progress of archeology and costing 18 euros, this guide collects “what we knew until 2021, that is, when we closed the text; the last one was 2009”.
containing the guide, folding map where streets, elite buildings, defense systems and main cisterns are indicated, four episodes: the history of the site, the residential area and the naming of the city and the history of Tossal de Manises and the visit. “There are sections with the history of the review, the site itself and the tour of the buildings and monuments to understand why the streets, baths, forums, shops are the way they are… very complete guide”.
Highlights on their pages virtual entertainmentIt’s a very graphic way to better understand the city, which appears to confront the current image. “Battles were recreated to show how the city was built and what it looked like, reconstructions were made from our documents,” says the archaeologist.
Olcina says that knowing this Roman city “took us in a certain way. all roman life because we have the same buildings as in Rome, but smaller”.
It will be the next step in the future An exhibition where everything is discovered. “It’s something that needs to be done,” he says.
On behalf of the Cultural Assistant, Julia Parrathe importance of this dedicated guide Manises Launch It “collects information that has evolved over the decades to communicate all the findings and significance of the settlement to a wide audience, through 115 explanatory pages containing over 100 maps, illustrations, and color images of great beauty and engaging color”.
The purpose of the publication, he says, “bring knowledge to society accessible, entertaining and rigorous”.
Source: Informacion
