Framed within the activities since the Department of Social Policy occasion of Intercultural Week, yesterday, the humanist scholars offered Angel Francisco Cutillas Sociocultural Center Roque Baños, a talk entitled "A little history about Jumilla" in the that part of the path ran the municipality over the centuries since the first Iberian peoples today.
"You can not forget where he comes if you want to know where it goes. To integrate with fullness in a new place and need to know a little history on the new destination because only then will know the roots of a people and understand their present" justified the thematic rapporteur talk and added "Jumilla is a wonderful land to stay, and so is proved by the passage of history, a crossroads and mix of cultures."
He explained that Angel Francisco, the cultural richness of Jumilla remote centuries in history, first with the Iberians, and their first settlement in the area in Coimbra del Barranco Ancho, one of the most important Spanish east, and then with the many peoples and lineages that have dominated this land.
Romans, Aragon, King Pedro I, and finally the Marquis de Villena, have all been nourished the city of culture, each in his time and which was his own, but always leaving its mark on the future of the history of Jumilla.
Special mention was the rapporteur at the mixture of cultures that lived in the first settlements were made at the foot of the Castle.
"It should not scare the culture shock we have today in Jumilla, where is a reality that comes from far away. Lived many centuries ago, not Christians, Moors and Jews, without their dispute were a problem," stated Angel Francisco, finally making a sweep by Spanish expansion in very different parts of the world, creating more than one hundred cities across America and founded hundreds of universities.
This afternoon at 20.00, Socio-Cultural Center will host the next event planned within the Intercultural Week, this time focused on the screening of short films on health issues, immigration and women.
On Saturday the 28th, will be the turn of intercultural sport with a day of living around football, which will involve teams of players of different nationalities.
The tournament will be held in the Pavilion of Miguel Hernandez from 18.00 to 20.30.
The intercultural meeting shall be the act to close the week of activities will take place on Sunday 28, Paseo Poeta Lorenzo Guardiola.
There, nearly two dozen local and immigrant associations are from 10.00 offering typical foods, and ethnic performances in music, theater or dance among others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla