The Amics del Museu de Xàbia (AMUX) is focusing its activities for the month of May on deepening the Islamic Era in the province and the region.
Thus, in his lectures "Wednesday Curios"Last week they received the writer Just Sellés, who gave an illustrated talk about his book"The Blue Mountain - Chronicle of the Vizier al-Azraq"This novel, a very personal work of fiction, tells the story of the man commonly known as Al-Azraq as a story"Blau"Who died fighting for the castle of Alcoy in 1276 and had a love hate relationship with Jaume I.
Following this theme, this Sunday AMUX members organized a bus tour to the Vall d'Alcalà to see the countryside for themselves and walk "following in the footsteps of Al-Azraq"The tour was guided in English and Spanish by archaeologists Ximo Bolufer and Josep Castelló, who took the group along the riverbanks to visit l'Atzubieta, an abandoned Moorish town. Finally, the group tasted a meal Special Arabic in the restaurant La Font d'Alcalá, and then visited a snowfield.
