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Although the exhibition will be open daily for guided tours within the fortified area, the last Sunday of September there will be an open day to coincide with the European Day of Jewish Culture.
The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, opens this afternoon at the Jewish Synagogue exposure Lorca Castle 'Traces of Jewish Culture in Lorca', which has received more than 70,000 visits in the three Spanish cities in which it has been shown to times.
Jodar recalled that "this show has been in three capitals of the three cultures such as Toledo, in the Sephardic Museum, Cordoba, in the Royal Botanical Gardens, and Avila, in the Auditorium San Francisco, which is an important channel dissemination of our cultural and tourism ".
"The exhibition comes to lorca to offer visitors comprehensive information on the findings, medieval life, the effects of the Jewish diaspora and the impact of this discovery to Lorca," said the mayor, adding that "above all, the presence of this sign on our way of Lorca will join the European Day of Jewish Culture, an event to be held the last Sunday in September and for which we will schedule an open house that allows visitors know Lorca and Jewish legacy Lorca and this exhibition for free ".
However, the sample also can be visited every day with the guided tours of the Synagogue and tourism will create an incentive and a tool to learn more about the Middle Ages in a capital to this period as was Lorca.
These guided tours are conducted Monday to Sunday at 12:00 hours, 13:30 hours and 18:30 hours and include a tour of the Fortress of the Sun and the Jewish quarter, and the price for Lorca 3, € 75 if you make friends with free card 'Lorca Workshop of Time' and from 9 € tourists, except those under 12 years pay € 4 and the elderly, numerous family, students or youth card that paid 7 , € 75.
However, the mayor has predicted that "there are many people who want to receive the visit of the sample and, in fact, during the celebration of the National Heritage Council were many requests we received and we will now turn to this exhibition remains a great ambassador of the Jewish heritage in Lorca ".
The importance of the Jewish presence in medieval Lorca from the fourteenth century to the end of the XV has been found after the discovery of the Jewish quarter and the synagogue which was part of the citadel Lorca, making this city a homeland of three cultures.
The aim of the exhibition 'Traces of Jewish Culture in Lorca' is to show not only the history of this community, but also disclose details of their daily lives, professional, religious or material culture, ie get into the privacy family life, day to day, of the Jews who lived during the late Middle Ages in the Castle of Lorca.
The exhibition is divided into five areas ranging from the Jewish diaspora to the specific case of the Jewish castellated Lorca, exposed in several panels, and give us an idea of ​​what daily life was like for these companies in the Middle Ages (with the synagogue as the central space of religious life) and in the case of the Jewish discovered in Lorca Castle, a showcase reproductions exposed horizontal pieces found in archaeological excavations, a model of the same with two recreations of lamps as well as a multimedia screen footage on the history of the Jewish quarter and synagogue lorquina recently joined the city's cultural visits.
The basis for the development of the exhibition was due to information provided by the excavations in recent years of Jewry in the Castle of Lorca in which, in addition to bringing to light many homes and a synagogue that stands out for its great condition, have recovered numerous objects (ceramics, metal objects, lamps, hannukiyas, etc. ..) that shed more light on the daily life of the Jews Lorca.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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