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An antique machine for grading raisins has been donated to the Soler Blasco Museum in Jávea

24/3/2014

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This agricultural implement will be installed as part of the information display in the Riurau d’Arnauda

Jávea, Thursday, 20th March 2014.

The Soler Blasco Municipal Archaeology and Ethnographic Museum in Jávea has now added to its collection an antique piece of machinery originally used for grading raisins; the machine is an ingenious construction of wood and iron, measuring 294 by 180 cms wide and about 3 mtrs in height.  This interesting and culturally valuable piece of equipment constitutes one of the last examples of its type still preserved in our region and has been donated by Agrogata SL, a descendent of the old CAS company (Union of Agricultural Cooperatives), established back in 1960.

According to the spokesman at the Museum, the machine will now be cleaned and tidied up before being installed as part of the informative display about raisin production located in the Riurau de los Català d’Arnauda situated in the Montaner park.

This special agricultural implement was constructed during the first few decades of the 20th century in the Borrell workshops in Denia and was used for various different purposes involved in the processing of raisins.  Most recently the machine was used for stripping the stalks from clusters of raisins.  However, it also has several interchangeable rectangular shaped screens used for the selection and grading of the raisins.  The way it works is very simple: the raisins (loose or in bunches) were poured into a hopper at the top of the machine into a cylinder from where they dropped through some large rectangular screens which collected them and separated the stalks from the raisins.  The mechanism was powered by an electric motor, which may have originally been steam driven, and which functioned with a rotary action, vibrating the sieves on the machine by means of straps and wooden wheels.


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The Amics del Museu de Xàbia venture South

2/3/2014

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Saturday 22 February: More than 50 members of the Amics del Museum de Xàbia (AMUX) ventured to the southern-most point of Alicante province last Saturday for a special guided visit of the archaeological and historical sites of Guardamar del Segura.

Guardamar's strategic position, at the mouth of the River Segura, means it has been settled from pre-history to the present day. The Phoenicians, Iberians, Romans and Islamic people all left substantial traces of their occupation.

Guided by Antonio García Menárguez, Curator of Cultural Heritage and director of the Museum of Archaeology of Guardamar (MAG), AMUX members visited both the 'Fonteta', site of the Phoenican city port and one of the best preserved urban complexes in the western Mediterrean, and the 'Rabita Califal' or Islamic school. The 'Rabita Califal' is a unique group of religious islamic buildings from the Omeya Andalusi period conserved almost in its entirety.

Menárguez' colleague and technical assistant at the Museum, Francisco Panes, guided the AMUX round the Archaeological Museum and the Forestry House, which houses a display of photographs, documents and objects related to the reforestation process started in 1900 by engineer Francisco Mira to stop the sand dunes invading the town. For more than 25 years, the local people planted thousands of trees which not only stopped the dunes invading their homes but revealed many important archaeological sites, but created a unique coastal forest, known as La Pinad.

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        • CAVE PAINTINGS (ARTE RUPESTRE)
        • CHALCOLITHIC (Copper) & BRONZE AGES
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        • 1. La Romanización en las tierras de Xàbia
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        • 3. La prehistoria de Xàbia y su entorno
      • Quaderns: English versions >
        • 1. Romanisation of Xàbia
        • 2. Xàbia in the Modern Era
        • 3. The Prehistory of Xàbia and its surroundings.
    • Catálogo de castillos regionales >
      • Castells / Castillos / Castles - Intro
      • Castillo de Aielo de Rugat
      • Castillo de Alcalá (Benisili)
      • Castillo de Borró
      • Castillo de Carbonera
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      • Castillo de Chio /Xiu (Llutxent)
      • Castillo de Enguera
      • Castillo de Montesa
      • Inventario
    • Exposició - Castells Andalusins >
      • Intro - Valenciá
    • Exposición - Castillos Andalusíes >
      • Intro - Castellano
    • Exhibition - Islamic castles >
      • Intro and menu - English
    • Sylvia A. Schofield - Libros donados
    • Mejorar la entrada/improve the entrance >
      • Proyecto - fotos
      • Cartel Roll-up
  • Historia y enlaces
    • Historía de Xàbia >
      • Els papers de l'arxiu, Xàbia / los papeles del archivo
      • La Cova del Barranc del Migdia
      • El Vell Cementeri de Xàbia
      • El Torpedinament del Vapor Germanine
      • El Saladar i les Salines
      • La Telegrafía y la Casa de Cable
      • Pescadores de Xàbia
      • La Caseta de Biot
      • Castell de la Granadella
      • La Guerra Civil / the Spanish civil war >
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        • El refugi de la guerra del moll de Xàbia
        • l'Arquitectura de la Guerra a Xàbia
        • Planos - Refugi Moll
    • History of Xàbia (English articles) >
      • The Castle of Granadella
      • Ermita del Pòpul - a brief history
      • Telegraphy and the Casa del Cable
      • Civil war architecture in Xàbia
      • Cemetery of San Joan
      • Cova del Migdía
      • Quintus Sertorius - the "Braveheart" of Hispania
    • Charlas y excursiones / talks and excursions >
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      • Expo Iran - MARQ
      • La Illyeta dels Banyets
      • Al Azraq
      • La Pilota Valenciana
      • Pla de Petracos
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    • Ermita de San Joan
    • Santuario de la Mare de Déu dels Àngels
    • Ermita del Popul
    • Ermita del Calvario
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