- On 8, 9 and 10 July at the MARQ and as part of the series of conferences on the temporary exhibition Cities of Light
On 8, 9 and 10 July, the MARQ will become the meeting point for national archaeological experts who will offer their analyses of the Iberian period, Rome and the period between the Visigoths and the early Islamic period on the Iberian Peninsula. The MARQ CV Foundation has programmed a series of lectures on the present-day temporary exhibition at MARQ "Cities of Light". with the aim of disseminating Ancient History and the beginnings of the Middle Ages in the urban area of Alicante, offering a broader chronological and spatial frame of reference, at regional and peninsular level, to enable its historical contextualisation.
The lectures will take place in the MARQ auditorium on 8, 9 and 10 July, from 17:30 to 20:They will be organised into three thematic and temporal blocks - Iberian Period, Splendour of Rome and Towards a New World - which will deal successively with the chronological phases into which the temporary exhibition itself is organised, which can be visited at MARQ until 7 September, Each session will offer two framework lectures illustrating the period analysed, given by specialists in the field, and a specific presentation, focusing on local data, by each of the members of the team investigating the Alicante site of Tossal de Manises.
The Cycle of Conferences directed by the director of the MARQ, Manuel Olcina, is completed with two guided tours by the curators of the exhibition, Olcina himself, the archaeologists of the MARQ Foundation Antonio Guilabert and Eva Tendero, and the architect Rafael Pérez, collaborator of the MARQ, one to the temporary exhibition rooms and the other to the Tossal de Manises site, the centrepiece of the exhibition, in order to provide a global vision that will bring knowledge of the origins and evolution of Alicante's Ancient History and the Early Middle Ages closer to the general public.
The lectures will be given by Feliciana Sala Sellés, from the University of Alicante; Eduardo Ferrer Albelda, from the University of Seville; Manuel Olcina Doménech, director of MARQ; Ángel Morillo Cerdán, from the Complutense University of Madrid; José Luis Jiménez Salvador, from the University of Valencia; Sebastián Ramallo Asensio, from the University of Murcia; Sonia Gutiérrez Lloret, from the University of Alicante; and the archaeological technicians of the MARQ CV Foundation and curators of the Cities of the CV exhibition; Sebastián Ramallo Asensio, from the University of Murcia; Sonia Gutiérrez Lloret, from the University of Alicante; and the archaeological technicians of the MARQ CV Foundation and curators of the Cities of Light exhibition, Eva Tendero Porras and Antonio Guilabert Mas. They will also be joined on the visit to the site by the architect Rafael Pérez Jiménez, who is also part of the curatorship of the exhibition.
Free entrance until full capacity is reached, more information at: Series of lectures CITIES OF LIGHT - MARQ Scientific Meetings
