El Castellar de la Morera

Monuments

The research project of the archaeological site Castellar de la Morera –also known as Castellar d'Elx– aims at documenting one of the most interesting sites within the Islamic archaeology scene in Alicante. This project has been promoted by the Archaeological Museum of Alicante (MARQ), with the participation of the University of Alicante and the support from the Archaeological and History Museum of Elche (MAHE). Cristóbal Sanz in 1621 and Pedro Ibarra –the historian from Elche– in the 1920s already mentioned it. This piece of research tries to highlight a place that has been forgotten by research and to redefine the problems of the early Islamic settlement in the region of Elche. It is a team-based piece of research, run by Pierre Guichard, Sonia Gutiérrez Lloret and José Luis Menéndez Fueyo. The project's main aim is to explain the settlement historically in the light of the eventful processes of an Islamic society's foundation between the 8th and 10th centuries.