LEGACY

The House of Lauria has left an important material imprint 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 began a research 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 the extensive material record recovered in the excavations -ceramics, wood, anthropology, archaeozoology, malacofauna, metals, glass, stone-, as well as the historical, graphic and social documentation of a site that has disappeared and which has become a national and international reference in the study of medieval archaeology.

RESEARCH INTO THE LAURIA HOUSE 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 led to a change in the knowledge we had of this monument and the fortification system of the christian village in terms of its constructive origin and its later conception.