The bay of Portitxol de Xàbia has been confirmed, by a study, as one of the richest coastal points at the archaeological level of the entire Valencian Community. That is the result obtained from the underwater surveys carried out and in which a total of 40 historical anchors have been found, dated 20 of them,...
The CIRNE Foundation and the Soler Blasco Museum restore three pieces from the 2nd and 3rd centuries
The Soler Blasco Museum, in collaboration with the CIRNE Foundation, has restored three pieces from the 2nd and 3rd centuries, found in the excavations of La Rana de Gata de Gorgos. An amphora, a bottle and a jug are the three elements restored by Mayte Gay. The director of the Soler Blasco museum, Ximo Bolufer, has...
The Hermitage of Santa Lucía and Santa Bárbara
The Hermitage of Santa Lucía and Santa Bárbara crowns the highest point of one of the highest rocks in the municipality. At 162 meters high, this small chapel is built - municipal property - which is encompassed, by its architectural arrangement, within the so-called hermitage of conquest (hermitage of conquesta). Although...
The Amics Association of the Xàbia Museum recovers the Andalusian site of the Torre de les Capçades
Members of the Amics Cultural Volunteering Association of the Xàbia Museum (AMUX) have been commissioned this weekend to highlight the archaeological site of the Torre de las Capçades, which was excavated more than thirty years ago and of which the base of a small rectangular tower of formwork...
They find new amphoras of the Roman time in the second excavation of 'The Frog'
For a week and during this month, a second archaeological excavation campaign has been carried out in the Roman site of La Rana, municipality of Gata de Gorgos, under the responsibility of the University of Alicante. Various students from the history and master's level of archeology are working at the site....
Archaeological remains of the Marina Alta return to the Soler Blasco Museum after being transferred to the MARQ
The 95 Marine Collection composed of archaeological remains of 60 sites in the Marina Alta region has been returned to Xàbia, specifically the Soler Blasco Museum after having been ceded, for 20 years, to the MARQ of Alicante. The pieces, of a wide chronology, according to the director of the Museum, Joaquim Bolufer, correspond...
Visit to the 'Cova de les Bruixes'to celebrate in' Tourism Day 'in Benitatxell
This Wednesday the "Day of Tourism" was celebrated and in the Poble Nou de Benitatxell they did it with a day of visit to the "Cova de les Bruixes". More than a hundred people went there, going through a very particular landscape; They crossed riuraus and vineyards until they reached the site. Miguel Sánchez and Anna Viciach,...
New findings in the Cova de les Bruixes of El Poble Nou de Benitatxell
In recent days there has been good news in the archaeological excavations that are taking place in the Cova de les Bruixes. The archaeologists, Miquel Sánchez and Anna Viciach, have discovered in these last weeks three lamps of pitera dated, one of them, in the eleventh century and the other two, which are...
New findings in the excavations of the 'Cova de les Bruixes' of El Poble Nou de Benitatxell
New findings The archaeological excavations of the site of the Cova de les Bruixes of El Poble Nou de Benitatxell continue to yield important findings. Archaeologists have just discovered a new cereal silo from the Andalusian period, dating from the 12th century, where they have found a lot of fauna (goat bones)...
The findings of the 'Cova de les Bruixes' of Benitatxell are presented at the MARQ of Alicante
The archaeologists, Miquel Sánchez Signes and Anna Viciach i Safont, presented the works carried out between 2015 and 2017 in the Cova de les Bruixes of El Poble Nou de Benitatxell. This paper was framed within the 6th Archaeological Conference of the Valencian Community that took place in the Archaeological Museum of Alicante. The...
The Cirne de Xàbia Foundation promotes the excavation of the 'Cova del Comte' by Pedreguer
The Cirne de Xàbia Foundation promotes the excavation and research in the Cova del Comte de Pedreguer after the large number of fragments of bone and mollusks found. The foundation is committed to the latest archaeological technologies in order to reconstruct how the Marina Alta was 22.000 years ago. The campaign has begun...
