The Department of Archaeological Sites organized last Saturday, in the plenary hall, an exhibition conference in which participated the director of the archaeological site of La Motilla del Azuer, in Daimiel (Ciudad Real), Miguel Torres, and in which he presented the model of museum management and visits to the business fabric of the Totanero municipality, which could be extrapolated to La Bastida.
The talk was attended by the first deputy mayor and councilor of the branch, Juan José Cánovas, who introduced the guest;
as well as members of the Municipal Corporation, representatives of the Platform of Defense of La Bastida, along with merchants, innkeepers and potters of the municipality.
It has also been made, along with municipal authorities, archaeologists and municipal technicians a visit to the totanero archaeological park, which has managed the concessionaire of the visits "Connection Culture".
With this initiative, it was intended to publicize the management project that has been developing in the Municipality of Daimiel since 2013, under a collaboration agreement with the Board of Communities of Castilla La Mancha.
The agreement signed between both administrations allows the latter to manage the resource, maintaining the first ownership of the deposit, which has the maximum figure of patrimonial protection, to be declared an Asset of Cultural Interest, by the government of Castilla-La Mancha, a instances of the City Council of Daimiel.
La Motilla del Azuer, is the most representative site of the Bronze Age in La Mancha.
The Municipality of Daimiel, aware of the magnitude and greatness of this cultural and historical legacy, decided to put it in value, marking as its main objective, to share one of the main archaeological gems of the Iberian Peninsula with the rest of the world.
This is the most representative site of the Bronze Age in La Mancha (2200-1300 BC), within a typology of settlement unique in Prehistory, the motillas: these are named because they form an artificial elevation within a surrounding space eminently flat.
They are also considered exceptional monuments because of their scientific wealth and their scarcity in number.
It is located in the fertile plain of the homonymous river, controlling and exploiting a territory that allowed access to basic productive resources, such as potentially optimal lands from the agricultural point of view, water supply captured from the water table, or the control of natural routes, vital for the exchanges referred to prehistoric groups.
In this line, and aware of the importance and relationship with water in the municipal area, there is the possibility of opening its doors and take advantage of the proximity to the National Park of Las Tablas, to encourage tourism in the city of Daimiel;
and allowing you to host hundreds of visits every year.
The tourism promotion project, now led by the Motilla del Azuer, is offered as a favorable circumstance to relaunch the interest in the historical, cultural, social and environmental wealth offered by a city to discover, whose gastronomy and accommodations implement an offer in the services sector that has the guarantee of the SICTED seal (Integral Tourist Quality in Destination System).
In the organization of the visits to the site, the Local Museum of Daimiel, is a key piece, being the origin and end of the same, in whose facilities a good part of the history of Daimiel, its heritage and illustrious personages is collected, as it wants The Department of Archaeological Sites set in the old building of the Technological Center of Crafts.
Daimiel has, as it is the case of the Town Hall of Totana with La Bastida, to share one of the main archaeological gems of the Iberian Peninsula and to position itself as a strategic point in the interior tourism, favored by its historical and natural heritage, its services and its playful, cultural and gastronomic offer, says the mayor, who reiterates his invitation to people and neighbors interested in this matter.
