LEGACY

The House of Lauria left an important material mark that can still be seen in our territory. Outside Alicante, the most important work is the Gothic church of the Royal Monastery of El Puig de Santa María, promoted by both Saurina de Entenza and her daughter Margarita de Lauria during the first half of the 14th century. 

Its construction houses the tomb of Bernat Guillem de Entenza, the uncle of James I who fell in the siege of 1237, prior to the capture of the city of Valencia. It also contains the remains of the tomb of Margarita de Lauria, designed and built by the French sculptor Aloi de Montbrai, one of the most notable artists of medieval Europe.

20 YEARS OF THE IFACH PROJECT 2005-2025

The material legacy of the Pobla de Ifach has been of enormous value since the MARQ Archaeological Museum of Alicante began a research and development project 20 years ago with the support of the Calp Town Council and the Penyal d'Ifac Natural Park of the Generalitat Valenciana.

The project was born with a multidisciplinary vocation, covering all the sections of the extensive material record recovered in the excavations -ceramics, wood, anthropology, archaeozoology, archaeozoology, malacofauna, metals, glass, stone-, as well as the historical, graphic and social documentation of an enclave that had disappeared and that, little by little, is re-emerging to show the keys and agreements that we made more than 700 years ago and that have forged us as a people.

RESEARCH ON THE LAURIA IN COCENTAINA 

The figure of Ruggiero di Lauria and his lineage has had a secondary role in its historical recognition by the people of Cocentaina, being for some a great unknown.

The recent archaeological excavations carried out in the west wing of the Palau Comtal (the old fortress) and the study of the stereotomy carried out by the MARQ, have changed the knowledge we had of this monument and the fortification system of the Vila Cristiana in terms of its constructive origin and its later conception.