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Poble Nou Route
The population grew a lot in the eighteenth century. From 1804 the town began to expand on this side of the river and the Poble Nou or ‘New Town’ was born. Its centre is the Plaza de la Luz, Square of the Light, where this route begins. The old cart track…
Poble Nou cemetery, Alacant street sector (panel no. 33)
In this sector of the cemetery seventy tombs were excavated between 1999 and 2001.
They were next to the old Alicante road.
In 1st century BC the road was paved with pebbles from the river and edged with kerb-stones. The most interesting group are nine tombs from 5th century BC, separate from the rest.
These contained the cremated bones only of women, extraordinary black-figured Greek pottery and a bronze Etruscan colander.
In Vilamuseu, the museum of the city of Villajoyosa, you can touch replicas of some pieces.
Plan key:
1. Road with its walls of the first century B.C.
2. Graves with remains from funeral rituals (1st century BC)
3. Group of tombs of women from the 5th century B.C.
[Yellow] burial pits and mounds of the 6th and 5th centuries BC
[Blue] 1st centuries BC
They were next to the old Alicante road.
In 1st century BC the road was paved with pebbles from the river and edged with kerb-stones. The most interesting group are nine tombs from 5th century BC, separate from the rest.
These contained the cremated bones only of women, extraordinary black-figured Greek pottery and a bronze Etruscan colander.
In Vilamuseu, the museum of the city of Villajoyosa, you can touch replicas of some pieces.
Plan key:
1. Road with its walls of the first century B.C.
2. Graves with remains from funeral rituals (1st century BC)
3. Group of tombs of women from the 5th century B.C.
[Yellow] burial pits and mounds of the 6th and 5th centuries BC
[Blue] 1st centuries BC
