EARTH

The other axis of the city of Denia that the exhibition deals with is its intense materiality, expressed in a large number of objects from more than forty years of development of an Urban Archaeology programme, which are nothing more than the expression of its historical evolution.

In room two we will contemplate the urban planning linked to the Roman city and its port buildings, the layout and nature of its necropolis and its funerary offerings. Or the articulation of its territory in the villae farm management with the figlinae or amphora manufacturing centres, such as the one at l'Almadrava. The material imprints of the prodigious DāniyaThe medina of commercial districts and a large and densely populated port suburb, artisan districts with an intense productive life expressed through its more than twenty pottery kilns, and its many cemeteries. It is followed by the medieval town secluded in the castle and its splendid suburb, which in 1612 received the title of city from the hands of Philip III. These are the beginnings of an urban centre which, after experiencing the boom derived from the sultana trade throughout the 19th century, plunged into a crisis which it was able to turn into an opportunity with the development of a colourful toy industry.