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Last Saturday marked the International Day for Monuments and Sites.

To commemorate this date, the Department of Culture and Tourism of the City of Jumilla organized a tour to Coimbra del Barranco Ancho.

It was attended by about 70 people, including people coming from Jumillano and Murcia, Cieza, Archena and Yecla, among other places.

During the visit, the directors of the excavations, José Miguel García Cano and Emiliano Hernández Carrión explained to the audience the restoration and consolidation that have taken place both in the sanctuary and in the village cemetery.

Juana Guardiola, Councillor for Culture said: "Coimbra is a very interesting place that is still undiscovered, because the town is very extensive and we hope that over time continued and new findings."

Guardiola said that such activities are attractive because "archaeological tourism attracts great interest, we also intend to place the explanatory panels so that anyone approaching until there knows where you are, your history and the work that has been done. "

For its part, Emiliano Hernandez said that "we have taken a special interest in two tombs of the Necropolis of the village, where they are 30 years of research.

The tombs in particular are the number 22 and 70, the latter is very important because it is where about Cipo the Iberian riders. "

Hernandez added that "within the village, the room was reconstructed H, enriching the walls, so people get an idea of how was the type of the Iberian world.

Little by little we are recovering the way he looked the town in the Iberian period, ie the third or fourth century before Christ. "

The Archaeological Site of Coimbra del Barranco width is composed of a large town, three cemeteries and a shrine dedicated to the goddess Tannit, all from the Iberian period, and a Late Bronze Age town with a necropolis, another settlement in the Bronze Age and a camp dating from the Mesolithic.

Excavations began in 1977 and will have excavated only 5%.

Among the materials found include the Wake of the Horsemen Pilar (CIPO), artistic quality comparable to the Lady of Elche, or gold earrings shaped cluster of grapes, found last year 2008 ..

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla