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The City Council of Caravaca de la Cruz, through its councils of Tourism and Culture, joins the commemoration of the International Day of Museums, with a series of activities open to all citizens.
The activities begin tomorrow, Saturday May 13 at 11:00 am, with a guided tour of the quarries and Roman temples of the Cerro de la Ermita, in the caravaqueña district of La Encarnación, in charge of the municipal archaeologist and director of the Museum Archaeological 'La Soledad', Francisco Brotons.
In La Encarnación deposit is one of the best examples of the whole national territory of the processes of cultural contact between Romans and Iberians.
It is one of the few pre-Roman Spanish sanctuaries that allows an in-depth analysis of the transformations of beliefs, rituals and cult images after the arrival of the Romans to the Peninsula at the end of the third century BC , In addition, remains of the temples that the Romans built on the old Iberian sanctuary, whose hard walls were finally incorporated to the structure of the hermitage of the Incarnation.
On Thursday, May 18, students of the institute Oróspeda de Archivel will participate in another guided tour of the Roman remains of Castillo de Archivel and Cabezuela de Barranda, considered the most important peninsular sites for the study of the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey Magno, between 49 and 44 BC This visit will be repeated on Saturday, May 20, at 11:00 am, but open to the public.
The network of museums in Caravaca de la Cruz will hold open days on Thursday, May 18, and Saturday, May 20.
The entrance to all the museums of the urban center and to the Ethnic Music of Barranda will be free during both days.
Within the program of the 'International Days of Museums', there is also the piano recital by the caravaqueño Arturo Abellán, who at his young age has already offered a long list of concerts in Spanish venues such as the Palau de la Música de Valencia The Royal Casino of Murcia and in other countries such as Austria, Italy and Germany and has been awarded more than 10 prizes in prestigious competitions of piano nationally and internationally.
The concert will be based on the Archaeological Museum 'La Soledad' and will be held on Friday, May 19, at 9:00 p.m.
The City Council of Caravaca de la Cruz responds in this way to the invitation that the International Council of Museums (ICOM) makes before the world museum community to join the celebration of 'International Day of Museums'.
The theme chosen for this year is 'Museums and controversial stories: to say the unspeakable in museums', with which we want to highlight the role of museums that, putting themselves at the service of society, can become centers for pacification of relations Among peoples and in an instrument for mediation, reconciliation and plurality.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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