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Francisco Garcia, Mayor of Mazarrón, and the Councillor for Culture, Ginés Campillo, opened Thursday cycle papers of the International Seminar "Mazarrón in Mediterranean areas alum (XV and XVI centuries). At the opening session also involved the Paulino Iradiel studies at the University of Valencia and Didier Boisseuil of François Rabelais University of Tours, in addition to the municipal archaeologist Maria Martinez Mayor.
For two days arrived about 25 teachers and researchers from different parts of Europe, mainly from Italy, approach and analyze the significance of the exploitation of alum at the dawn of the modern age.
A time when alum mines Mazarrón constituted an attractive source of wealth not only for marquesados ​​of Villena and Los Vélez but for avid Genoese merchants, main dealers and distributors of this product used at the time as a mordant for dyeing tissues.
There was only one place in Europe that overshadowed the Mazarrón in this extraction process, and were the Italian Tolfa mines controlled by the Pontificate.
The result of this importance comes the main town of Mazarrón.
Under this historical frame the International Seminar falls "Mazarrón in Mediterranean areas alum (XV and XVI centuries)" organized by the City of Mazarrón and the International Scientific cordination Network Exploitation of Mediterranean Alums in Europe (CNRS France).
Directed by Didier Boisseuil University François Rabelais of Tours, also participates in the organization Paulino Iradiel leading the project I + D + I "Urban Identities Corona de Aragón-Italy: Economic Networks, institutional, political functions fourteenth and fifteenth century" .
The program of the seminar includes a practical session outdoors, consisting of a visit to the site of The Pedreras which will take place on Friday February 6th at 10 am.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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