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Exhibition on the expulsion of the Moriscos in Dénia Castle

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Start date: July 01, 2010
Finish date: August 30st, 2010
Event type: Exposition
Site: Dénia Castle
Schedule: From 10: 00 to 13: 30 and from 17: 00 to 22: 00
Home: Free
Event finished

With the intention of enhancing the role that the castle of Dénia has in tourism and in the local economy, an exhibition has been installed in the Torre del Consell that under the title 'L'expulsió Chronicle of Els Moors. Dénia, 1609 Any 2009 ' It describes the important role of the port of Dénia in the process of expulsion of the Valencian Moors of the peninsula.

The sample, You can visit during the months of July and August from 10 to 13: 30 and from 17 to 22 hours, It has about fifty pieces belonging to the "magnificent" collection of military and weapons material from the time of the Duke of Lerma, King Felipe III and the expulsion of the Moors that the Archaeological Museum is slowly doing. The material exposed inside the tower is completed with a part dedicated to the geography of the Moors installed in the embrasures adjacent to the watchtower.

This exhibition has already been displayed in Dénia, at the Center d'Art L'Estacio, the 25 22 September to November 2009 when the fourth anniversary of the expulsion was commemorated. The assembly is now exposed in Torre del Consell has all the thematic blocks of this -the shows geography of the Moors, the expulsion of the Moors from the Kingdom of Valencia, the port of Denia and the long trip to Oran and other places of North Africa except the allusive to the rebellion of the Moors in the Sierra de Laguar that, for reasons of space, has no place in the installation of the castle.

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