Prune and landscapes star in the new thematic routes Ethnological Museum
Included in the acts of commemoration of the millennium of the Taifa of Dénia, the Ethnological Museum has launched a series of thematic routes whose main axis is the raisin, the memory of its landscapes and its cultivation and tradition in the city. Temps de pansa is the name of these five routes, which will begin to celebrate on Sunday 22 September and will run for five Sundays.
La first route It will pass through the city, visiting the Ethnological Museum and the building that housed the Cooperative Wholesale SL buying and packaging happens in the early twentieth century, located in Plaza del Convent.
La September 29 route will travel landscapes Raisin Dénia, visiting Booth Grimalt, where attendees can see the tools and utensils craft scald happens. There will towards Cauells and Les Benitzaines, starting where riurau of great interest is preserved.
The October 20 tours will resume with a walk heading Pinella La Xara where samples of the rural architectural heritage are still preserved.
Outing October 27 It will be characterized by a tour of the farmsteads of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, built by the bourgeoisie of the era of trade passes, and the 3 November finalize the routes with a visit to Jesus Pobre and raus Rius the Alqueria Colomer.
During each excursion, in which a distance of no more than two kilometers it will travel, agronomists Arabic texts will be read allusions to scald happens. And, although the origin of this tradition is in the Roman era, it was a thousand years ago in Al-Andalus period, when it developed and perfected the technique.
To participate you must register them before 96 642 02 calling 60 or visiting the Ethnological Museum. The tours are free and suitable for the whole family.
Pepa Font commitment to spend as a result of common destiny of the region
"The raisin is fashionable". With these words, the councilor for culture of Dénia, Pepa Font, encouraged the Marina Alta region to make the raisin, the grape and its results, a product of a regional tourist destination.
The momentum that has recently been granted such as our tradition la Scheldt Pansa riu rau in Jesus Pobre It has helped the grapes take a special enhancement in the Marina Alta.
Therefore, the councilor proposes that this product is the link between the 33 towns in the Marina Alta facing the tourist. Muscat, sweet wine, wine or traditions such as the Scheldt are Font bet a regional level.