ELS MUSULMANS AL COMTAT
NOVA EXPOSICIÓ PER A LA FIRA DE TOTS SANTS DEL CENTRE D'ESTUDIS CONTESTANS
One of the activities that most characterises the CEC is its dissemination work. The publications, the biennial exhibitions on the occasion of the Cocentaina All Saints' Festival and the installations of the Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of the Comtat, have allowed us to bring the heritage closer to everyone: the people of Cocentaina and the region, those who visit us, and especially the schoolchildren who can enjoy the museum.
Among the work that the Centre d'Estudis Contestans is currently carrying out, we would like to highlight the work that for more than a year has been devoted to the study of the Muslim presence in the lands of El Comtat. An extensive research work of historical, archaeological and ethnological documentation, with the realization of numerous photographs and
Planimetries of castles, depopulated areas and archaeological sites located in the region, which this year, coinciding with the 400th anniversary of the decree of expulsion of the Moors from the Kingdom of Valencia, We plan to make it known with the setting up of an exhibition and the publication of an extensive catalogue-study, which, in addition to an interesting introduction by Pierre Guichard, an outstanding medievalist from the University of Lyon, specialised in subjects related to Al-Andalus,
This exhibition "ELS MUSULMANS AL COMTAT", is sponsored by the Fundació MARQ, by the Conselleria de Cultura de la Generalitat Valenciana, with the collaboration of the CAM and the Associació d'Amics del CEC, Museu i Patrimoni Cultural del Comtat. The exhibition will be open until April 2010 at the headquarters of the Museu Arqueològic i Etnològic del Comtat del Centre d'Estudis Contestans, at carrer Major nº 3 in Cocentaina.
The exhibition includes a wealth of archaeological materials found at sites in the area: Islamic ceramics of all known types, coins, epigraphic remains, documents with Arabic writing from the Andalusian and Mudejar-Moorish periods, currently conserved in the Museu Arqueològic i Etnològic del Comtat and the Museu Arqueològic Provincial d'Alacant MARQ, as well as others from temporary exhibition loans made by other institutions and private individuals. Planimetries of castles and depopulated areas, panels explaining the innovations that the Muslims brought and their survival today: town planning, regs, mills, gastronomy, toponymy, etc..,
To set up the exhibition, the two floors and the different exhibition rooms that make up the Museu Arqueològic i Etnològic del Comtat, located at Carrer Major, 3 in Cocentaina, have undergone a major refurbishment and refurbishment; the exhibition has been organised into thematic rooms dedicated to: farmhouses and depopulated areas, castles, the contribution of the Muslims to our culture, religion, Muslim epigraphy in the Comtat, Arab writing in the Comtat, monetary circulation, ceramics, to finish with a room dedicated to the event of the expulsion of 1609.
We have no doubt that with this publication and exhibition, we can contribute to society, not only in our region of Comtat but in the whole of the Valencian Community, a work tool of great social dimension and of important cultural transcendence, disseminating the presence and the important legacy that the Muslim culture left in our lands.
Both the presentation of the catalogue-study and the opening of the exhibition will take place in Cocentaina during the month of October. The exhibition, installed in the premises of the Museu Arqueològic i Etnològic del Comtat and the headquarters of the Centre d'Estudis Contestans, will remain open until April 2010 so that it can be contemplated by the residents of Cocentaina as well as by the numerous visitors that Cocentaina will receive on the occasion of the celebration of its traditional Fira de Tots Sants 2009; but especially by groups of schoolchildren from all over the Valencian Community.
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