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The director of the Institute for Youth, Veronica Lopez, and the councilman of Youth in the City of Caravaca, Antonia M ª Álvarez, have moved today to the hamlet caravaqueña Archivel to learn about the work in the Campo International of Archaeology Cerro de la Fuente.
More than twenty young people from countries like Italy, France, Mexico and South Korea and various Spanish provinces are working in this field where we find valuable remains of a Roman castle.
Thanks to the collaboration between the Institute for Youth and the City of Caravaca, since year 2010 have been carried out excavation work and consolidation of the remains located in one of the most important Roman sites in the region.
The importance of this place is that it has deepened the knowledge of one of the most important events in Roman history, as civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great between 49 and year 44 BC, as explained by the municipal archaeologist, Francisco Brontons.
The first occupation of the site took place at the end of the third millennium BC, as evidenced by the remains found in a village where metallurgical test document (the first pieces of metal that man was capable of producing: awls, arrowheads and knives) .
About two thousand years later the Roman fort was built to monitor the watershed of rivers and Quípar Argos and control the path of communication with Spain.
The site of Archivel is one of the few known examples in the Iberian Peninsula Roman military architecture of a small scale.
The director of the Institute for Youth has emphasized the social role being played by the Labor Camp Caravaca to enhance the values of coexistence among people from all different backgrounds and cultures through the recovery of heritage and cultural values.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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