CALP TOWN COUNCIL AWARDS THE CULTURE PRIZE TO MARQ.
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Calp Town Council, through its Advisory Council of Decorations, Honours and Distinctions, has decided to award the Vila de Calp 9 d'Octubre Culture Award to the Archaeological Research Project that the Archaeological Museum of Alicante (MARQ) has been developing for six years in the archaeological site of the medieval town of Ifach. The award will be presented to the MARQ's directors in a solemn institutional act that will take place in the Auditorium of the House of Culture of Calp, on the 9th of October, coinciding with the Day of the Valencian Community. With this cultural distinction to the MARQ, Calpe Town Council wants to recognise the trajectory developed by the technical staff of the Alicante centre in favour of the defence and dissemination of the historical and archaeological heritage of Calpe. Recent initiatives include the exhibition "Calp. Archaeology and Museum", on display at the Alicante museum from December 2009 to February 2010 as part of the "Local Museums at the MARQ" cycle; as well as the technical assistance in the project "Los Baños de la Reina" and, especially, the project that the museum of Alicante is developing in the site located on the slope of the Peñón de Ifach and that aims to study the remains of this unique newly founded town that was built at the end of the 13th century -1298- under the mandate of Roger de Llúria, Admiral of the Crown of Aragon and which was destroyed in 1359 in the midst of the Castilian-Aragonese conflict, giving rise to the construction of the Calp we know today.
The project also has the participation of the Consellería de Medi Ambient, Aigüa, Territori i Habitatge de la Generalitat Valenciana, together with that of the Calpe town council itself. The medieval archaeologist of the MARQ. D. José Luis Menéndez Fuello, coordinates and directs a large scientific and multidisciplinary team that includes archaeology, history and the study of the territory and the palaeoenvironment, to which must be added the field support of more than 250 volunteers from more than 30 Spanish and European universities. This project is generating important expectations for the historical knowledge of Calp and its territory, as it is the only town that has not been investigated, excavated or transformed before, which makes it a unique and exceptional site where archaeology and environment come together in a complete and unique way to date.
The winning of this award rewards, once again, the long trajectory of research that the MARQ develops in various archaeological sites in the province. Along with such consolidated heritage projects as the Iberian-Roman city of Lucentum (Alicante), the archaeological site of Illeta dels Banyets (El Campello), the rock art route of Pla de Petracos (Castell de Castells), the Medieval-Almohad Tower (Almudaina) and recently the Cava Gran de la Mariola (Agres). The MARQ, together with the Pobla de Ifach in Calp, has been working on other sites in the province where cutting-edge lines of research are currently underway, such as El Castellar (Elche), Cova Randero (Pedreguer) and Cabezo Pardo (San Isidro - Granja de Rocamora). © MARQ-Management October 2010
