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The Minister of Culture and Spokesperson, Noelia Arroyo, and the Mayor of Yecla, Mark Ortuño, today visited the Roman site of Los Torrejones in Yecla, where in late 2014 white marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian from the year was found 135 AD In the current excavation campaign, which ends this month, is currently a team of about 25 people and the Community and the City will begin work to his statement as a Cultural Interest.
Also, this bust of Hadrian is precisely the centerpiece of an exhibition to be held in 2016 and 2017, and is already organizing Culture in collaboration with the City of Yecla, in which similar pieces preserved in national and international museums will meet, together with another series of works on the subject of Roman official portrait, to give more visibility to this important archaeological site and yeclano finding.
Noelia Arroyo stressed "the great work done by those responsible for the excavation over the last 15 years, in some interventions that continue to yield results and revealing details about the Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula and the role played by the complex of Los Torrejones ".
During this season, the team led by Liborio Ruiz has focused primarily on the task of lifting surface levels in order to define the building next to the bust of Hadrian was found.
Similarly, actions are being undertaken cleaning the excavated area.
The site
The Roman site of Los Torrejones, of great extent, responds to the type called rustic villa, a typical farm from Roman times whose occupation lasted from VI century BC to AD Experts believe that the archaeological works were started in the nineteenth century .
In 1984 systematic excavations, which lasted until 1989. This work allowed to uncover an important belonging to the service area of ​​the country villa of the I-III centuries AD architectural complex, in addition to finding a phase of expansion of initiated installations belonging to the fourth century AD
A decade later, they resume the excavations under the direction of archaeologist and director of the Municipal Archaeological Museum, Liborio Ruiz, performing different interventions until now have allowed to specify five construction phases, the last one for the period of Almohad domination in the mid- XII century.
The materials has provided the site have been very abundant and rich: bas-reliefs in marble remains of statuary, coins, ceramics, mosaics and more recently painted stucco polychrome linked to a monumental Hadrian time still unexcavated but It came to light in late 2014 and associated with the exceptional statuary found in the campaign: the bust of Hadrian and Aphrodite's head and feet, as well as marble slabs decorated in relief.
Municipal Archaeological Museum and the Church of San Francisco
Noelia Arroyo, who after touring the site also attended the Municipal Archaeological Museum, said that "the preservation of our cultural heritage remains a priority for Culture. Therefore, we will work to promote research and, above all, to disseminate the work being undertaken at the sites of the different municipalities, so that all citizens know the archaeological wealth of the region and thus discover details that is our own history. "
The visit of the Minister of Culture and Spokesman with the mayor of Yecla ended at the Church of San Francisco, built by the Franciscans in the late sixteenth century, declared of Cultural Interest in the Monument category.
The church, which highlights the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows and remained closed for worship for over 40 years, reopened last year after intense restoration work was assisted by the Ministry of Culture.
"This is an example of how we have to work on the recovery of our heritage," he said Noelia Arroyo.
Source: CARM
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