Coordinated by Jaume Fuster, the exhibition includes part of the documentation used to prepare the plan promoted by Taula del Bon Profit to recover, establish and locate the toponymy
'La Casilla' opens with an exhibition on how the toponymic map of Serra Gelada was created
There are maps, nautical charts, and engravings from different centuries
The opening will be this Friday, the 25th, at 7:30 p.m.
L'Espai d'Art 'La Casilla' opens this Friday, August 25, with an exhibition on how the toponymic map of Serra Gelada i les Penyes de l'Albir was created, promoted by the Hydrographic Commission of Taula del Bon Profit and which, with the support of the Benidorm City Council, was published in November of last year. This is how the Councilor for Historical and Cultural Heritage, Ana Pellicer, has advanced today, who has recalled that this Espai d'Art is the result of the rehabilitation of the old road workers' booth that the State ceded to the City Council; a performance included within the Participatory Budgets and with which "we expand the increasingly numerous and important exhibition offer of Benidorm".
Pellicer explained that "the exhibition 'Fent el plànol toponymic de la Serra Gelada i les Penyes de l'Albir' is coordinated by Jaume Fuster", author of the aforementioned plan together with the linguist Francesc Xavier Llorca Ibi and the cartoonist Francesc Aracil, and exhibits "A large part of the documentation that over five years was compiled to illuminate the project."
Thus, and as the exhibition coordinator has detailed, among the pieces that make up the exhibition there is "a collection of around 40 geological, scientific and road maps" of Benidorm and the Serra Gelada, practically all of them original and the oldest dated. in 1660.
In addition, nautical charts, portolans, and engravings are exhibited; a 1760 course by Vicente Tofino de San Miguel in which Benidorm and a part of the Serra Gelada appear; and "a machine to make the oceanic seismic profile" donated by the University of Alicante for the occasion. The curator of the exhibition has advanced that, among all the documentation and pieces, there will also be "some surprises".
Pellicer has invited the public to "join us on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at l'Espai d'Art 'La Casilla', on Vía Emilio Ortuño, which starts with an exhibition that is very much ours, in which the viewer goes to find unique pieces, some with centuries of history and that have never been exhibited in the same space before”.
In short, “it is an interesting tour of the future of Benidorm through cartography and also a call to preserve and disseminate the place names of a tourist, heritage and environmental enclave as important as the Serra Gelada; and to which, thanks to the work of the team led by Jaume Fuster, we can access through the 'Plànol Toponymic de la Serra Gelada i les Penyes de l'Albir', which is the result of years of study, work and research”.
Fuster, for his part, has assured that it is "a very interesting exhibition" for "anyone who likes plans and who likes the Serra Gelada" since it provides "a brutal amount of information"; and he has added that "for it is an honor to be able to inaugurate 'La Casilla' as an exhibition hall because it is a contemporary booth of one of the plans that appear."