The Hacienda de los LLanos or Don Florencio, an agricultural farm of 30,562 m2, has been set up as the Huerta Museum, in which the visitor knows the reality of traditional work in the countryside from the original buildings and utensils of the hacienda and those donated by the residents of the municipality.
This museum, inaugurated on May 13, 1995, is located next to the Parish of the Transfiguration of the Lord, to the right of the monument of the Patroness, the first monument in the world dedicated to the Festival of Moors and Christians. The museum has two floors in which all those elements of a festive nature have been placed, such as costumes, flags, weapons, documents, photographs ... that have been part of the history of the Festival of Moors and Christians of Ibi. The fund that is available in the Museum has been formed thanks to the invaluable collaboration of people and entities that have ceded the objects in a disinterested manner. The whole museum is decorated with festive music, screens with videos from previous years and a digitized tablet system where you can explore much more about the party. The museum consists of two floors. In the first of them we can find several rooms with mannequins that show the official costumes of the comparsas, both current and those of previous years. Apart from the official costumes we can also see some festive costumes, among them the Christian Captain costume, by the Comparsa Maseros, from the year 1930, buttoned with 58 silver coins. Rotating exhibitions are soon planned so that visitors can enjoy many more costumes. On this same floor you can also see a real size sketch and a bust in plaster with bronze treatment of the Moor and the Christian that contains the Monument to the Patroness, a monument that looks on our Church Square, which we can observe the outskirts of the museum. The second floor consists of several rooms, including the audiovisual room, this is used to make projections. We can also find the corner of the festeros of honor, a festive chronology, the music room, several exhibitions of photographs, flags belonging to comparsas, armament, the covers of party magazines, several historical documents of special relevance as the text of the embassies of the year 1872 or the Regulations of the Feast of the year 1913. Among other objects, instruments are exhibited with which the old paper cartridges were made, which, filled with gunpowder, were used to load blunderbusses and arquebuses in the firing acts. A museum that hides a lot of history, without a doubt, if you are passionate about the Moors and Christians, you can not stop visiting it. In the museum you can find: -Chart of Vicente Ferrero: bust and design to original size, of the Moor and Christian that looks in the Plaza de la Iglesia - Photographic album that shows the remodeling process of the Plaza de la Iglesia, prepared by Enrique Pastor Castelló -Figures of Moor and Christian, exterior poster and figure of the Virgin of Olegario Bernabeu - Corner with the images of all the honorary party -Focus charges images corner -Made of all party magazines and posters -Aquarelas original by Rafael Guarinos that served as an illustration for the trilogy of: '' Ibi, a shared destiny ''. -Photos of all the Festivals Commissions since 1962 -Mural of emblematic photos of our Fiestas since the 19th century - Holiday Chronology -Projection header official video of Fiestas 2015 News in the museum: -Book of Gold -Collection full Official Party Magazines - Music scores corner -The Almogávares bring their old flag after changing it for the 50th anniversary of the comparsa -New costumes -Car of "Paco el del Carro" -Two pieces of artistic archaeological heritage of the Valencian Community. Painting with the representation of the Patroness, Mare de Déu del Desemparats and another representing the coronation of the Virgin Mary
On May 10, 1969, the Azorín House-Museum was founded, in a characteristic nineteenth-century house that rebuilds the home in which José Martínez Ruiz lived, one of the most famous Spanish prose writers. The Casa Museo is owned by the CAM Cultural Foundation and has become a world benchmark for the study of the work and the figure of José Martínez Ruiz. His library houses more than 17,500 books, some with personal notes of the writer, as well as a documentary and hemerographic Azorinian background of 6,000 articles and more than 3,000 letters. Thanks to the successive legacies and donations, an extensive private library of Azorín has been created, with which the Museum House has become a focus of research promotion on the writer of Monóvar and the Generation of '98. Azorín lived until his adolescence between Monóvar and Yecla. His brothers, Amparo and Amancio, collaborated in the restoration of the House in order to keep the spirit of Azorín alive. At the moment it is the only material vestige that remains to us to honor the figure of Azorín in Monóvar. As regards the property, it is a representative construction of traditional houses Valencian, with ground floor, first floor and cambra. The first floor of the house stands out for its monumental stone entrance and its two large openings arranged on both sides of it. On the first floor, and in symmetry with the previous floor, we find three large balconies equipped with rejería. The upper part has a changer with small spans and rejería. The decoration of the façade is reduced to the flat moldings of plaster that run horizontally marking the separation of heights. From the initial house the entrance is conserved and, with different functionality, the father's office, the bedrooms, the family library and the attic.
Discovered on December 1, 1963 by Mr. José María Soler, the Treasure of Villena is a spectacular set of 66 pieces of various metals made up of bowls, bracelets, bottles and various pieces of gold ornament, three silver bottles, a bracelet of iron, an iron finish with gold ornaments and a button of amber and gold. In total, a unique find of almost 10 kilos of gold, which was hidden 3,000 years ago and is considered the most important prehistoric treasure in Europe. The Treasure is exhibited in the José María Soler Archaeological Museum, which exhibits pieces of great value from the different periods of history that document the human occupation of this region since prehistory – 50,000 years ago – until today. The remains belonging to the Bronze Age are numerous and come from more than 20 villages, being the Cabezo Redondo its maximum exponent. On the other hand, materials from the Iberian period and Roman and Arab civilizations are also represented in sites as important as the Iberian settlement of Puntal de Salinas, the fabulous Arracada de la Condomina, the Dama de Caudete, and by remains of columns, pottery and coins belonging to several Roman villas.
Located in the headquarters of the Central Board of Festivals, former palace belonging to the Selva-Mergelina family. It is a four-story building that perfectly reflects the typology of nineteenth-century bourgeois construction. Inside, the Nolla ceramic floors stand out, one of the most characteristic and genuine elements of Valencian modernism. The museum is dedicated to house an important collection of objects related to the traditional Moors and Christians Festivities of Villena. It shows costumes and festeras images, posters and programs published over many years or memories of previous parties. In addition, the funds show a representation of all the costumes of the fourteen comparsas that participate in the Moors and Christians Festivities. Important is the section dedicated to the conservation of original scores of festive music, inseparable companion of all the acts that are celebrated during those days.
ASPE HISTORICAL MUSEUM The History of the town of Aspe is disclosed by the Historical Museum, from where a wide range of activities are offered in order to promote and preserve the cultural heritage of the population: temporary exhibitions, conference cycles, educational workshops, presentation of publications . For its location was chosen a historic building of the late nineteenth century, located at the outskirts of the town and known as "The Cisco". THE VISIT Through two different spaces in the Historical Museum of Aspe history is reconstructed through its archaeological and ethnological pieces. The tour begins in the archeology rooms. There, the visitor can know not only the aspects of the daily life of the different cultures that have inhabited this territory, but the great historical events that motivated the passage of one another. In this way, hunter-gatherer life forms of Paleolithic human groups give rise to the appearance of agriculture and the birth of stable settlements and the creation of the first classical civilizations, such as the Iberians. The Romanization, the Islamization and the Christianization of these lands also allow us to understand the formation and evolution of ancient and medieval cultures, as well as the pillars on which the society of modern times is based. The contents related to Contemporary History are the link with the collection of ethnography, built thanks to the material contribution and oral information of many inhabitants of Aspe. The ethnographic funds are also composed of elements belonging to the house and located in their original environment, such as the mill and the winery. These materials make reference to agricultural work, crafts and other aspects of traditional life. ASPE HISTORICAL MUSEUM Free entrance Avda. de la Constitución 40-42 Information and concerted visits: Tlf .: 965 490 433 Mail: museo@ayto.aspe.es
The Primitivo Rovira e Hijos Factory is the oldest artisan factory in Jijona. It was founded in 1850 by Primitivo Rovira Soler and has been transferred from father to son, generation after generation, to Primitivo Rovira Sanjuán today, who together with his sister Beatriz, form the sixth generation of this jrunenca turronera family. From its origins, in 1850, until today, this great Casa Turronera has opened its doors every autumn, excited and energetic to face its two and a half months of intense activity, which ends just before the Christmas celebrations. Throughout all these years, Casa Rovira has been awarded with countless awards and distinctions that guarantee its experience and quality as Turron Masters. It is worth noting, for its antiquity and originality, the concession granted in 1879 by the Italian King Humberto I when he designated us with "the high privilege of being able to raise the royal coat of arms in his trade and to become the Supplier of the Royal Italian House".
It was constructed in the 1920s as the barracks for the Civil Guard. Nowadays it houses the Youth Information Centre as well as classrooms where courses and cultural activities are offered. We can also find the Museum of Technology of Jijona here in room 2 on the first floor. A wealth of cultural heritage generated by industry, especially that of turrón during the last two hundred years, is on display in this museum.
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