Local government intended to include an item in the budget
It is the 'castellum' that more information has contributed to the study Roman fortifications in times of the Republic
Benidorm City Council, through the department of Heritage and in close collaboration with the department of Architecture of the University of Alicante (UA) wants to initiate in 2017 the process of turning the site of the Tossal de La Cala into a museum. A site in which in recent years have had four archaeological campaigns that have established that the remains are actually a 'castellum' from the first-century Roman B.C. and not an Iberian settlement as it was believed for decades. Teachers of AU , Feliciana Sala and Jesús Moratalla explained to members of various groups of the corporation full details about how they have developed successive archaeological campaigns and various advances made in the last four years, the most notably the discovery and exhumation of part of the wall of the fort from the Republican era and different rooms. The councilwoman of Heritage, Ana Pellicer, indicated that the visit has served "to raise awareness of the appreciation we have to do in the Tossal" and "necessarily turn it into a museum". Pellicer stressed that "from the government team we want this site to be a museum, the castellum is the one which more information has provided to the study Roman fortifications since the period of sertorianas wars." "This study will also allow us to contextualize and disclose to the public how was the 'castellum', what was its use and how they lived in it when it was occupied by troops." Pellicer advanced that in the municipal budget of 2017 we want to include an item that allows us to begin that museum" once "the actions that we will have to do" have been quantified." This summer, coinciding with the fourth season of excavations, posters were placed in El Tossal to inform citizens about this site. Apart from starting the process of becoming the site into a museum, the mayor of Heritage said that "the intention of the City Council and Alicante University is to make next year a new campaign of excavations to continue exposing these important archaeological remains."
