Historical Heritage resumes school visits to Tossal de La Cala with 220 Primary and Secondary students

The Department of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Benidorm City Council has resumed this week the school visits to the archaeological site of Tossal de la Cala, to publicize among the younger population of our town the remains of the Roman 'Castellum' built from the 1st century in this enclave by the troops of General Sertorio and what the life of the soldiers who lived there was like. This was announced by the councillor of the department, Ana Pellicer, who stated that during the year “there are many centres interested in this type of visit to increase the student's knowledge and introduce them to some of the treasures that we house in our city, like this site from the 1st century BC.”

The first students who have participated in this new round of visits to Tossal are just over 220 local Primary and Secondary students. Specifically, 50 schoolchildren from the Leonor Canalejas public school and 174 first-year ESO students from the IES Mediterrània, who during this week will take guided tours of the site to learn about all the secrets that the site houses with the help of an archaeologist from the Consistory.

Ana Pellicer has explained that these students have also been the first to receive 'in situ' the activity booklet published last September by the City Council for the school population of Benidorm and that, through different activities and entertaining illustrations of Malagón, represents “an authentic manual to bring us closer to the present day of this living site, which 2,000 years later continues to yield findings that help us understand how those Roman warriors who made Benidorm their home thought, felt and lived.”

The Councilor for Historical and Cultural Heritage has highlighted the school visits to Tossal "are part of the different activities that we offer to the educational centres of Benidorm so that the students get to know the site up close, thus often complementing the subjects and knowledge they deal with. throughout the course" and has also highlighted that they "turn the younger population into prescribers of our historical heritage among their family and social environment, so we achieve a double objective: to promote the training of the students and the "at the same time, give visibility and dissemination to our assets, in this case Tossal de la Cala."

Finally, Pellicer has indicated that "in Benidorm we are lucky to have important heritage assets that, without a doubt, are an attraction for the educational community of the city and even other parts of the region, in which each year participates more actively" on visits. Likewise, she has advanced that, for next year, "we have already arranged new visits from other educational centres", encouraging other schools and high schools that have not done yet so to also join this activity.