Museo Arqueológico Municipal "Vicent Casanova" (Bocairent)
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C./ Abadía, s/n Tel: 96 290 50 62 Timetable: Saturday and Sunday from 12 pm to 1 pm.Groups arrange visit in advance. |
Since 1970, the Local Archaeological Museum is located in an adjoining room to Church of the Assumption. The collection has a series of remains from the Palaeolithic up to the Middle Ages that have been found in different sites next to the town of Bocairent. It is worth mentioning a collection of ceramics from the Neolithic period and, particularly, a vessel decorated with a marine shell.
A detailed replica of the Bocairent’s lion, carved in stone, is also remarkable: it is a big funerary statue from the 5th-4th century BC, whose original is in the San Pío V Museum of Valencia.
Finally, it is worth mentioning a spectacular mock-up of “les covetes dels Moros” (“the Moors’ caves”), artificially excavated in the rock, that gives us a view about the most emblematic spot of the town.
