The next conference will take place on Thursday, August 5, at 20.30, by Mr. Angel Luis Molina who analyze the various aspects of the daily life of Murcia in changing the Middle Ages to the Modern Age
The mayor of Jumilla, Enrique Jimenez, and the Councillor for Culture and Tourism, María Dolores Fernández, yesterday inaugurated the exhibition and lecture series, which the Department is developing this week and next, dedicated to the visit of the Catholic Kings to the Kingdom of Murcia, which took place in 1488.
The Doctor in Medieval History, Aniceto López Serrano, was responsible for opening the lecture series with a presentation on the Marquis of Villena and its link to the reign of the Catholic Monarchs.
The historian thus focused on the loss of power of the Pacheco family, his confrontation with the Catholic Kings, who in consequence, they stripped of virtually all the Marquis of Villena, except for some cities, including Jumilla.
Thus, the town remained within the Marquis until 1812, when the Cortes of Cadiz, abolished manors.
In addition, Professor López Serrano, offered some hints of what it would Jumilla between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and how and why people lived their activity, including highlighting, agriculture and livestock, as industrial warehouses mills topics , reported directly to the Marquis.
The next conference will take place on Thursday, August 5, at 20:30 pm, also at the Cultural Hall Cajamurcia, this time by Mr. Angel Luis Molina Molina, a professor at the University of Murcia, who analyze the various aspects of daily life of Murcia in changing the Middle Ages to the Modern Age
Finally, on Friday, June 13, also at 20.30, Jumillano Alfonso Antolí Fernández, will lecture on "The figure of Andres Mateo Guardiola and Aragon in the history of Jumilla. Myth and Reality", where he will tour this singular figure in the history of Jumilla, who was appointed the first Governor of the Castle of Jumilla after the arrival of the Catholic Kings to the throne of Spain.
The exhibition will be open until the 27th of June at the Cultural Hall Cajamurcia, is composed of 17 commemorating the visit of the Catholic Kings to the Kingdom of Murcia panels, where its passage is embodied by the cities of Murcia, Lorca, Caravaca and Yecla.
In his inauguration attended by the Mayor and the Councillor for Culture and Tourism, the two curators of the same, Isabel García Díaz, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Murcia and Francisca Amorós, Technician Regional Historical Archive.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla