The President of the Diputación de Alicante, Carlos Mazónthis morning visited the archaeological site of The Tower of L'Illeta and of the Queen's Baths in El Campello to get to know, in situ, this enclave in which the provincial institution and the town council will soon be working on the creation of a great cultural and touristic environment.
Accompanied by the First Vice-President and Member of Parliament for Culture, Julia Parrathe local mayor, Juan José Berenguerthe technical director of MARQ, Manuel Olcinaand the president of the Consell Valencià de Cultura, Santiago GrisolíaMazón has advanced the Diputación's intention to work on two specific points in the area: the implementation of a permanent interpretation centre "to help not only the studios, but also schoolchildren and the general public", and the development of access to the enclave.
"There has to be a bridge that goes beyond the consolidated phase of the sandy pass to become a peninsula again. We are deploying both initiatives to consolidate them as two milestones that finish beautifying this site that was once recovered by the Provincial Council and that we want to turn into an emblem of El Campello and the whole province," explained the president.
This interpretation centre, in which the history of the area would be explained to the public, would involve, in parallel, the execution of the new entries with accessibility that facilitate a global and orderly connection of all areas and services in a surface area of between 50,000 and 60,000 square metres.
The objective of the provincial and local initiative is to turn the area into a archaeological and botanical park, visitable on footof about six hectaresThe Commission's proposal for a incineration necropolis from the Punic periodthe 19th century cisterns and six pottery kilns from the Iberian period.
Both the president and the mayor of the municipality, accompanied on the tour by the deputy for Architecture, Juan Francisco Pérezthe managing director of the MARQ Foundation, José Alberto Cortésand the head of Exhibitions and Dissemination of the Alicante museum, Jorge SolerThe project has been approved by the Generalitat Valenciana and the central government, through Costas, with the aim of promoting the project, which has been declared a "project for the development of the Valencian coastline". Bien de Interés Cultural (BIC), as one of the most outstanding elements of the province's cultural and tourist offer.
Finally, the president indicated that the Diputación acquired this site in 1999 with the aim of recovering it and at the moment, as he explained, "we are working on the damage caused by the Gloria storm through a process of rehabilitation with a view to the celebration of Easter Week, for its tourist attraction, but also academic, historical and environmental".
The maintenance is permanentsaid Carlos Mazón, who added that both from the Architecture area -with annual budget lines-The Culture Department and the MARQ, as well as the MARQ, are tackling the recovery, promotion and awareness of this space that "symbolises the soul of the province".
