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The Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities and the City of Cehegín are organizing an exhibition to value the archaeological site of Begastri, to be displayed in the last quarter of 2015 in the archaeological museums of Cehegín and Murcia, and later, itinerant, in other municipalities.

The aim is to show the richness of the found remains which reveal the importance of a place that was populated from Iberian period until the eleventh century.

The Director General of Cultural Heritage, Maria Comas, and Cehegín Mayor Jose Soria, met this morning, accompanied by technicians of the Ministry of Culture and the City, to work on the development of museological blueprint that works for your museum planning and documentary.

"The goal is to provide the citizens of the region riches of this site, declared a Cultural and extending from the V century BC to the eleventh century AD and which were found Iberian, Roman or Visigothic, "said Maria Comas.

The draft provides for eight configuration spaces that would be a journey through windows, panels, audiovisual documents, labels with QR codes and pieces found in the excavation of the geographical context of the area, the prehistoric period, the Begastri Ibero-Roman, the late Roman or medieval world, as well as a perspective on the future of the excavation.

Among the items found on this site, which was bishopric during the Visigothic Hispania include glasses of plaster or pieces of flint from prehistoric times, votive offerings and Iberian ceramics, and the lady called Cehegín and ceramics and terracotta from Roman times, Mosaic of Begastri, the Ara Jupiter or Roman torso preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Murcia.

The Christian Roman period belong other parts, such as the Cross of Cehegín, the sarcophagus of Adam or Tremis Recaredo and the set of coins clustered around the so-called tesorillo Begastri and Islamic pieces that mark the decline of the city of Begastri in favor of the current Cehegín.

Source: CARM