{"id":9841,"date":"2019-07-26T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T10:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/?p=9841"},"modified":"2019-07-26T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T10:04:04","slug":"culture-director-visits-mojacar-la-vieja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/culture-director-visits-mojacar-la-vieja\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture director visits Moj\u00e1car la Vieja excavations."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Regional Director for Historical and Cultural Heritage, Elo\u00edsa Cabrera, recently paid a visit to Moj\u00e1car to see the work being carried out by the Granada University archaeologists at the Moj\u00e1car la Vieja excavations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\t Accompanying her at the site were Moj\u00e1car\u2019s Mayor, Rosmari Cano, local Tourism Councillor, Emmanuel Ag\u00fcero, Excavations Director, Jose Mar\u00eda Martin Civantos and the historian, Juan Grima.<br \/>\n\tMart\u00edn Civantos had the chance to explain to the group the new discoveries made so far in this second campaign and how these new excavations are showing the importance of the settlement in the area during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, until its abandonment when the population moved to the site of today\u2019s Moj\u00e1car.<br \/>\nAs the work progresses, the archaeologists\u2019 theories from in the first campaign regarding what brought about the transfer of a substantial population with well-organized defences, are being confirmed.  On one hand, there was the threat of the Christian Reconquest in the area, with an ineffective control due to their lack of complete vision of the maritime zone and any invasion. Secondly, discoveries in recent works have shown up some geological weaknesses that could have presented problems with the solidity of their constructions.<br \/>\nWhat is proven, however, is the importance of Mojacar la Vieja, due to its strong wall with 14 towers and a double fortification, the second of which was built in the highest part, corresponding to an area of military defence.<br \/>\n\tThe Cultural Director was very impressed by the findings to date of this second excavation campaign, promoted by the Moj\u00e1car City Council, as well the potential this site presents as it is in a very good state of conservation. It could well be a key to understanding an important phase in the Region\u2019s history, revealing and making sense of the area\u2019s culture and customs as well as the shape and form of the land.  She was also interested in future plans, with a view to a possible collaboration through her department and the Junta de Andaluc\u00eda.<br \/>\nMemolab, a biocultural archaeology laboratory based at Granada University is accredited with some excellent work on the excavations, along with its research and dissemination of information, which has been boosted by the cooperation and interest of the people of Moj\u00e1car.  Moj\u00e1car la Vieja is a project of the future that is already of significant cultural and touristic interest and whose name is gathering importance on international forums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional Director for Historical and Cultural Heritage, Elo\u00edsa Cabrera, recently paid a visit to Moj\u00e1car to see the work being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}