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Totana City Council will resume next March 4 scheduling guided tours to argárico site "La Bastida" Totana to be held during all weekends of the year;
and four visits dramatized and offering numerous workshops and a catalog of complementary activities to join groups.
Council of Tourism and Archaeological Sites Agustin Gonzalo Martínez and Inmaculada Blazquez, presented the features of the new visitors and promotion service site, whose contract was recently awarded to the Friends of La Bastida (ASBA) for the next year.
The service runs from March this year until February 2017.
The visits will be guided by an archaeologist of this partnership, on Saturday and Sunday will be held in two groups with a maximum of 30 people at 10:00 and 12:00 in winter;
and at 9:00 and 19:00 in summer to avoid the central hours of the day and the maximum temperatures.
Appointments must always be subject through the Tourist Office of Totana and can be made via phone 968/418153 or email address turismo@totana.es;
being bought tickets on site facilities.
Rates are for 3 euros per person and two euros for pensioners, unemployed or large family;
while those under 12 will enter the archaeological site for free.
Visits will be canceled if the number of people registered per group is less than 10, so it would be relocated by the technicians of the Tourist Office in another convenient date and time.
dramatized visits
The dramatized visits will be made through an explanatory tour that will be recreated with characters that will to meet visitors, causing curiosity and learning in the Bronze Age, and more specifically, culture argárica in La Bastida.
Visitors will see first hand how these communities, their lifestyle, the cult of death and ways of defending 4,000 years ago, while some characters interpret professionals era unfolded.
Appointments dramatized be the International Museum Day (May 18) will be on Sunday 15 more concretely May, the International Tourism Day (September 27) will be on Saturday, 1 October-, the festivities of Santa Eulalia (Saturday 10 December) and on February 25 before the end of the termination of the contract.
For dramatized tours, rates are 5 euros per person and 3 euros in the case of pensioners, unemployed and large families.
In addition, visits schools, which are free for primary school students, will be held Friday at 10:00 and 12:00, respectively;
and other covers a wide range of complementary workshops, with which it is intended to supplement and enrich the experience of returning to the argárica time.
In the case of secondary school students and college entry cost is 3 euros.
Catalog of activities
The workshops offer a catalog of various activities related to the lifestyles of the villagers and they are aimed basically at groups such as schools, neighborhood associations, social groups and families.
The workshops, which are priced ranging from 2 to 7 euros, deal with "prehistoric Hammers, useful blows", "History of ceramics", "Strings and vegetable textile fibers," "Hunters and trappers, instinct and precision "," Gatherers, the environment as a resource "and" Secrets of lithic, carving stone. "
Participants will learn techniques, practices and tools of the time as the punches and polished bone waters;
cordage and esparto baskets chopped;
loom weights;
making wax candles, shell necklaces, pigments, ceramics, figurines and containers, among others.
Attendees will also come near to the procedures of prehistoric hunting (bow and propeller, and wave trap);
skill games (bowling and petanque), courses and workshops lytic display plant (alcohol rosemary and calendula ointment);
and over the next few months other than fur (peeled, punching, sewing and engraving skins) and incenses artisans enabled.
In the workshops, enrollees can get closer to the more traditional subsistence techniques demonstrating their skill and ability, with activities such as drilling shells, hand fire demonstration, grinding minerals for pigment production and grain to make flour.
In other will approach the arts of making bowls and Argaric cups, puzzle ceramic forms, processing gypsy rope, sewing baskets of crushed esparto, braided whole fibers, use of loom weights and processing punches and bone needles , among other.
The councilors explained that with this promotion service a qualitative leap occurs in the provision of this offering society the knowledge of what had been discovered in recent years;
and they added that the cost of visits and workshops is basically for maintenance argárico village.
La Bastida is one of the most important archaeological sites of European prehistory, the village still inhabited 4,000 years ago, in the Bronze Age Argar;
and hoards enormous potential for understanding the past and projecting culture and heritage of the Region of Murcia.
The deposit is located on the Sierra de la Tercia, about six kilometers from the town of Totana, and was first researched and published (1869) argárico settlement and its 4 hectares make it one of the most extensive.
Society Argar was a milestone in the development of a sedentary lifestyle and town planning, takeoff metallurgy and the formation of political and economic inequalities.
The research project began to take shape in 2007 the result of the confluence of scientific and institutional wills, around which a comprehensive research project, museological and dissemination pursued articulates
The project has three basic objectives of systematic scientific research, museological and dissemination and laying the foundations of an international center for the study of the Mediterranean prehistory and archeology.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana / Foto: Totana.com
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