The Culture Department of the City of Dénia directed Pepa Font He has already presented the program of the millennium celebration of the Taifa of Denia, which will run until the end of the year and which include a series of lectures, workshops and visits to neighboring Taifa.
Font, accompanied by the counselor of the Delegation of Culture for the acts of the millennium, Guillem Rosselló-Bordoy historian, and archaeologist Josep Antoni Gisbert city, activities coordinator, explained the schedule looming around the millennium.
This summer's programming has started on Wednesday morning with the celebration of a conference on the citadels of the Taifas in the north of Dénia: Tortosa, Albarracín, Alpuente, Valencia, Xàtiva, Mallorca and Dénia in the castle from the city. Important historians and archaeologists have met there who have presented different topics in various conferences.
Tonight also begin guided by the seven gates of the fortress visits, some visits last year were a popular success, congregating around 2.500 people during the summer. The visits will take place daily during the summer months, in time to 20 21.30 22.30 hours and until midnight.
Thursday morning will begin a series of lectures on archeology treasures of Taifa, manufacturing and signs of trade relations, open to the public. The appointment will be on Thursdays at 20 hours in the Sala del Castillo until August 28, 14 except for the day.
The first conference will focus on S.XI treasures of the Taifa of Denia and the Balearic Islands; 24 day will discuss Manufactures ceramics from the Andalusian period and July 31 the protagonists are Madinat toys Daniya.
In August, ceramics in green and manganese Dénia Taifa de Albarracín and focus the theme of the conference day 7 and 21 will the metal manufacturing of the Fatimid east and Andalusians, of which there are testimonies found in Denia.
Activities around the celebration of the millennium of the Taifa will resume in October, when planned a conference in Palma on the Taifa of Dénia-Mallorca, while in November the holding of an international conference is expected on the Taifa of Dénia organized by the Department of Culture, the University of Alicante and the Alicante Institute of Culture Juan Gil-Albert.
Thereafter visits to neighboring Taifa be scheduled as embassies, open to the general public and will feature lectures and guided tours of the old quarters of the population visits. The first visit is scheduled Alpuente the 8 November and by the end of the month will move to Albarracín.
