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The Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Pedro Alberto Cruz, and director of the Institute for Youth, Veronica Lopez, today visited the Field Work Archaeology Caravaca de la Cruz that develops at the site of the "Cerro de las Sources with the participation of young people from countries such as France, Poland, South Korea and Japan. Before going to the site, located in the hamlet of Archivel, Pedro Alberto Cruz, Veronica Lopez have toured the facilities of the Youth Centre in the company of Mayor Caravaca, Domingo Aranda, and the councilman of Youth, Antonia Maria Alvarez.
The Youth Center project recently culminated with the execution of works for the third phase which has given the center of new premises for classrooms and offices for the service Informajoven and housing counseling and legal issues.
With the investments made in recent months the Youth Center brings together various services aimed at meeting the needs and demands of young people of the municipality in terms of training, leisure.
Rehearsal rooms for bands, a climbing wall, new technology classrooms, study rooms and rooms for workshops and seminars are some units that are part of the Youth Centre.
In statements given to the media, Pedro Alberto Cruz said that the Youth Center of Caravaca is one of the most comprehensive and structured in the region with space for training, information and leisure facilities for young people.
Both the mayor and the Minister of Culture have recalled the challenge of the coming Holy Year 2010 by ensuring that during this event Caravaca will be the epicenter of the culture of the region with activities that will be very present the tastes of young people.
Moreover, Pedro Alberto Cruz has overseen the work of the 25 young students of History and Archaeology at the site of Cerro de las Fuentes "in the field of archaeological work organized by the Youth Institute in collaboration with the Department Youth of the City of Caravaca. In the place of the "Cerro de la Fuente" is a castle located late Roman-republished century BC, a period which saw the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.
This construction, as explained by the excavation director, Francisco Brotons, is equipped with an excellent and original defensive system, which emphasizes a gateway paths flanked by square towers and an impressive rectangular rampart with bastions around 11 m in length.
Work done in the field of work are providing valuable data to reconstruct the military activity of the contenders in the upper basin of the rivers and Quípar Argos, allowing an important document and understand war episode was never mentioned by historical sources.
Below the remains of the castle ruins emerge a village in the Bronze Age and beyond, have found the crests of the walls of the urban grid of Emirate times, corresponding to the last phase of occupation of Cerro de las sources.
This edition of the work camp, which runs until the 10th of August, work has focused on cleaning and excavation of the deposit area located between the two gate towers of the 'castellum', exactly in the rooms flanking the entrance hall and the building of the wall structures of the Roman republican phase of the Emirate houses.
Also being carried out registration processes stratigraphic record sheets, drawings of plants and sections, archaeological photography and insertion of the structures exposed in the general topography of the site.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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