PASE GUIADO - Illeta.

8 febrero 2025

YACIMIENTO DE LA ILLETA - El Campello (Alicante/Alacant)

Description

Located on a small peninsula, at the foot of the Torre Vigía de La Illeta, there are some archaeological sites that are, without a doubt, among the most important in the Mediterranean. These lands were separated from the coast by an earthquake on an unknown date, and in the 1930s they were again joined to the land artificially. The first excavations were carried out by F. Figueras Pacheco between 1931 and 35 and, already in the 70s, by E. A. Llobregat. These works resulted in the confirmation of the existence in this place of different civilizations and cultures, the Roman, the Iberian and the Bronze Age being the most important, finding ourselves, therefore, facing a site more than 5,000 years old. of antiquity. From the Iberian period, vessels, weapons, tombs and ceramic remains have been found, as well as unique buildings that make us think about the existence of an important productive and commercial activity related to other Mediterranean cultures between the 2nd and 4th centuries BC. From Roman times, some small thermal baths have been found that would belong to a disappeared agricultural village and, linked to this and other nearby ones, some nurseries cut into the rock. Despite the erosion, you can still distinguish the rafts, connected to the sea, in which the fish were raised. These constructions (els Banyets) give their name to the site since according to oral tradition they were the baths of a Moorish queen. The site is currently supervised by the Alicante Archaeological Museum (Marq), who has been in charge of its musealization.




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The company is registered in the Madrid Commercial Registry, Volume 40039, Page 36, Section 8, Sheet M 711382, and Tax ID (NIF): B88553763.Registered address at Avda. Burgos 12 lateral, 28036 Madrid.