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City Route
The town grew beyond its walls as corsair attacks diminished from 1670. The Plaza del Olmo became the new town centre. From 1862, the Calle de Colón, the new Valencia road, became the main road. The market, the Theatre Auditorium, the Villa of Centella, the Roman Baths, the Chocolate museums and the…
Funerary monuments (panel no. 23)
They were moved here from the cemetery excavated in the Creueta or Juan Carlos I square in 2001. There you can find another panel that explains this important archaeological site.
On these platforms of stones there was a body of mud, that is, hard-packed earth, which has not survived.
Here were buried prominent citizens of the Iberian-Roman town.
They are from 1st century BC and were enclosed by mud walls.
Around them there were tombs with cremated bones in urns.
Alongside the urns were objects buried with the deceased, on display in Vilamuseu, the museum of the city of Villajoyosa.
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