El Ethnological museum It presents a new edition of the program of guided tours Temps de pansa, A tour of the remains of the history of cultivation and marketing of passes in Dénia, which had its golden age in the last decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The councilman of Culture, Rafa CarrióAnd the director of the Ethnological Museum, Josep Antoni Gisbert, presented the program of the season, which includes six routes, some successfully programmed in previous years and other new content.
Temps de pansa began last Sunday with a visit to the Ethnological Museum, dedicated to this golden age of the city's history. On Sunday, September 6, there will be a tour of the castle which will commemorate the time when the site was a private agricultural estate, from the mid-XNUMXth century to the mid-XNUMXth century, dedicated to growing vines and making raisins, with its own scalding oven located next to the Palau del Governador and a network of terraces planted with vines.
The following Sunday, September 13, an urban route through the places where it was selected, stored and marketed raisin is proposed. The tour will start in the Ethnological Museum and tour the street La Mar, Plaza del Convent, Station Valencia, the Sandunga and Fontanella streets and end at the port.
On September 20, the route through Les Rotes and the Montgó neighborhood, evoking a past time in which the landscape of Les Rotes and the Montgo it was lined with vines.
Farmsteads or summer farms dedicated major business families to focus the route passes 27 September day. Participants recommended in this tour should be furnished with binoculars to appreciate the details of the architecture of the time.
Temps de pansa 2015 end on 4 October with a visit to Coll de Pous where we find traces related to the cultivation and blanching raisin hidden until recently by the forest mass and, after fires have had the natural park of Montgó in recent years , they have regained visibility.
The visits will take place in the morning of 10.30 to 13 or 13.30 hours, they are free and only require prior registration by telephone 96 642 02 60 to except Monday, in time to 10.30 13 hours. In each tour participants were presented with promotional materials related to the theme of the route.
Shirt Paper acquired by the Ethnological Museum
Carrió and Gisbert have taken advantage of the call to present a recent acquisition incorporated into the collections of the Ethnological Museum and related to the production of raisins in the Marina Alta. It is a paper shirt with which the raisins were wrapped in their packaging box and a set of three ornamental stickers that were pasted on this wrapping identifying the origin of the product.
Belong to the Union of Cosecheros of Pedreguer, a union founded in 1911, 295 registered with partners. A curious fact Gisbert added that the annual quota who paid members of the Union was 9,50 pesetas.
Archaeological Museum director said that it is pieces "very difficult to find" and that "chance"He caused that were acquired by the museum. They are lithographs, made in Malaga, with images of women dressed to the taste of the time.
The importance of the joint lies, as Gisbert, that brings together two generations of Chromos "completely different". One is typical of the early 60 and 70 the nineteenth century and shows a woman with shawl without tile and ornamental elements in the composition. The other two also are part of the nineteenth century classicism but added other reasons as modernist flowers framing the figures.
