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The Deputy for Architecture presents the project, which includes an exhibition of manufactured objects and new technological installations with a high quality audiovisual montage.
Since the signing of the agreement between the provincial government and the city council to promote the site, the cultural centre has received nearly 200,000 visitors.
The Member of Parliament for Architecture,Jaime Llorethas visited in Castell de Castells on Neolithic Sanctuary of Pla de Petracos to learn on the ground about the renovation project of the Rock Art Centre. On this tour of the site and the cultural centre, Lloret was accompanied by the mayor of the municipality, Vicente Tomás Estalrich.
The project, directed by the technicians who since 1998 have carried out all the actions to enhance the site - the director of Exhibitions at MARQ, Jorge Solerand the director of the Department of Architecture of the Diputación de Alicante, Rafael Pérez-focuses on a audiovisual production high quality which deals with the paintings and informs about the pictorial ensemble of the site, one of the most important of the Mediterranean Arc, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Jaime LLoret has stated that ".it is important to develop, optimise and publicise this place, which highlights the history and customs of our ancestors and demonstrates, once again, the rich cultural heritage that the province treasures.". The start of this new project, which has an investment of 45,000 eurosThe project is scheduled for the end of October and is estimated to last about two months.
The paintings in this enclave, typical expressions of the so-called Macroschematic ArtThe sixth millennium BCE -They date back some 8,000 years and are related to the time of the introduction of agriculture and livestock farming in the Iberian Peninsula. Now, through this new project, the public will be able to learn in detail about the cultural expressions Neolithic and its dissemination process. An elaborate script will bring you closer to the epic that was the arrival on our shores of the first people with agricultural and livestock knowledge, as well as to the techniques used to make objects. All of this, mounted on a renewed spatial conception and adaptation of the premises occupied by the museum service.
The technicians from the Architecture Department and MARQ have been working for years on the protection and dissemination of this siteas well as in the update of scientific content and in the facility management and maintenanceof both the site and the Interpretation Centre. Among the actions carried out, we can highlight the improvement in the safety of the access path to the site, with the installation of handrails, the renovation of the signage and the updating of the information panels available at the site. in situ the whole.
These actions are the result of the cooperation signed in 2000 between the provincial government and the Castell de Castells Town Councilwhich was renewed in 2011 for a period of ten years. Since the beginning of this agreement, more than 200,000 peopleThis figure supports the work carried out to enhance the value of the ethnographic assets and this interpretation centre of the important Pla de Petracos Cave Art ensemble.
