Unpublished images from the early 1900s are donated to the Museu de Xàbia

El Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum from Xàbia has received as a donation a set of documents and objects from the Guardiola Gilabert family, the Huguet family and Magdalena Marí.

Donation to the Guardiola Family Museum

Magdalena Marí has ​​donated various objects of traditional xabiera culture and some of them are already part of the permanent exhibition and for its part, the Huguet family has donated several pieces from the Museum's ethnological collection. But without a doubt, the donation made by the Guardiola Gilabert family is the largest and highest in written and graphic documents from the XNUMXth and early XNUMXth centuries.

According to the first study carried out by the Museum, among these documents is the expropriation of the lands of the Sant Jordi castle for the construction of the primitive Xàbia dock dating from 1871, or the 200 photographic copies also from the late 1900th century and early XNUMXth century. XX, among which stands out an image of the rescue post for shipwrecked people that existed in Cala del Tango in XNUMX and of which the masonry base is still preserved.

Donation of photos of the Guardiola Gilabert Family. Photo of the Tangó aid station (year 1900)

Other elements of the donation are documents that belonged to María Rosa Guardiola, head of the women's section during the post-war period in Xàbia and another series of files that give an account of purchase and sale operations, wills, or diaries of those years.

But also ethnographic materials such as a large cauldron or a set of traditional volume measurements for grain, as well as traditional clothing and clothing from the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries of the Guardiola Gilabert family, together with some pieces by Carmen Sales.

The museum staff will catalog all the pieces and they will become part of the ethnological and historical collections of the Soler Blasco de Xàbia Museum.