The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, visit morning (11:30 am) the site of La Bastida argárico to the progress undertaken in recent months in the proposed museum and archaeological developments found by the research team Autonomous University of Barcelona in the town.
The future park aqueológico of "La Bastide" will feature a museum to house parts located and international research center dedicated to the Bronze Age in the western Mediterranean in general and the South in particular.
The project, which began in 2008, will make this site one of the main tourist and cultural of the Region of Murcia.
Founded circa 2200 BC, La Bastida is the first city that existed in Western Europe and the latest findings are unusual in Europe.
In so far explored surface defined remains tens of buildings, mostly built with large stone, showing the occupation of Bastida along almost seven centuries.
Also uncovered many tombs, which are almost always used a ceramic bowl as a coffin.
Around La Bastida articulates a research and dissemination project led by Professors Vicente Lull, Rafael Mico, Rihuete Cristina and Roberto Risch, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Currently working on the project a score of specialists in various branches of science and technology, most linked to prestigious research institutions, among which are the universities of Cambridge and Reading (UK), Tübingen, Kiel and Hohenheim, Stuttgart (Germany), Innsbruck (Austria), Arizona (USA), Barcelona Autonomous University of Murcia and the Louvre Museum (France).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana