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With two itinerant venues, in Calp and Cocentaina, it opens next Tuesday 8th July at the Casa de Cultura in Calp.
The Provincial Council of Alicante through the MARQ, Archaeological Museum of Alicante, the CV MARQ Foundation, the Banco Sabadell Foundation and the town councils of Calp and Cocentaina promote the exhibition Llúria. Lords and Ladies of the Earth, to commemorate the 720th anniversary of the death of the Calabrian nobleman Roger de Llúria. Grand Admiral of the Crown of Aragon, who died in January 1305, and Saurina d'Entença, who died in 1325, whose journey through our province leaves important examples in the historical and monumental heritage of two of the municipalities that were key in the evolution of the territory controlled by the House of Lauria: Calp and Cocentaina.
Llúria, Lords and Ladies of the Land brings together the main milestones of the figures of Roger de Llúria and his second wife, Saurina de Enteza, as well as highlighting the value of the material culture that we preserve and disseminating the figure of these two historical figures who marked the evolution and development of both municipalities.
The exhibition will have two exhibition venues, in Calp and Concentaina. The opening of the exhibition in Calp will be held on Tuesday, July 8th, at 10:30 am at the Casa de Cultura "Jaume Pastor i Fluixà" and will remain open during the months of July and August, from Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 2 pm, with free access. In Cocentaina the exhibition will remain from October 2025 to October 2026, in the Exhibition Hall of the Palau Comtal.
Curated by the MARQ technician and director of the excavations in Pobla de Ifach, José Luis Menéndez Fueyo, a specialist in medieval art, it is coordinated in each of the itineraries by Amparo González Martínez, coordinator of Culture at Calp Town Council, and Elisa Domenech Faus, technician at the Palau Comtal Municipal Museum in Cocentaina.
The exhibition has been designed by the award-winning architectural firm of Ángel Rocamora Arquitectos and is sponsored by the Banco Sabadell Foundation.
