Dénia Millennium is proud of his reign
In the year 1013, Mujahid hand, began a glorious stage: the Taifa of Dénia. The city was then a world leader, capital of the Kingdom of Dénia. Today, a thousand years later, like Granada, Dénia celebrates the millennium of its Taifa. and does so with acts that will last until the year 2015.
Last Wednesday afternoon, the council hosted the opening ceremony of these celebrations. Despite not being a popular act, if that were represented most dianenses associations and groups.
The evening began with a tasting of mint tea and Arabic pastries in the basement of City Hall. There we could see several councilors of the municipal corporation, three former mayors: Miguel Ferrer, Sebastià Garcia and Pedro Pastor; the mayor of the local police chief, Jose Martinez Espasa; presidents and presidents of various associations of the city, adding to the millennium celebrations of the Kingdom of Denia, the General Director of Culture and Heritage of the Generalitat Valenciana, Marta Alonso.
Then the guests went up to the plenary hall, where the institutional act was held with the participation of Alonso, the councilor for culture, Pepa Font; the ex-director of the Museum of Mallorca, Guillem Roselló-Bordoy, and the municipal archaeologist, Josep Antoni Gisbert.
Font requested in his speech the collaboration of both the supramunicipal institutions and the businessmen and associations, as well as the involvement of all the citizens, in the celebrations of such an important event. Alonso, for his part, responded that the Generalitat is committed to this initiative and lends its full support to the celebration.
The exdiector the Museu de Mallorca, Guillem Roselló-Bordoy, a historical anhelador of that period of splendor in the Kingdom of Dénia confessed. Gisbert, meanwhile, recalled that Dénia is like Granada, which this year also celebrates its millennium, but without the Alhambra. For the municipal archaeologist fundamental to further progress in history and investigate believe in it.
After the parliaments, the entourage moved to the Castle of Dénia, where a dinner was served with Arab delicacies to remember the times of splendor of that kingdom. Curiously, dinner was served on what should be the terrace of the cafeteria, a cafe that at the moment has no opening date.
The evening ended with a tour of the gates of the eleventh century around the castle, which was enriched by the crescent moon reigned over the main monument of the city.
Yesterday afternoon began the lecture series Millennium Taifa of Dénia by Guillem Rosselló, which focused on the figure of the first ruler of the kingdom of Denia, architect of the Taifa, Muyahid.
