The archaeological troballes at Castell d'Aitona, on stage

At the end of the darrers' two years, the final excavations in this area of the municipality have uncovered different elements and historical structures of high value.

This time on the 20th, the Plenary Room of the Aitona City Council has closed the conference “The hidden secrets of Castell d'Aitona”, a trobada promoted by the consistori -through the Fruiturisme project- with the objective of showing and donating to conèixer the different troballs that have been discovered over the course of the darrers two years during the archaeological excavations dutes a terme al Castell d'Aitona.

The conference was given by the archaeologist Ariadna Vidal, who has explained and detailed to all the attendees the history of the Castell d'Aitona, the details of the archaeological action that is carried out, and who are the most relevant troballes that are located in the time, posant de manifesto that Aitona compta amb a castell that faces moltes things to discover.

The archaeological activity is due to the end of the access ramp, the entrance area to the upper platform. Així, in the actions deployed they have been able to identify the Castell d'Aitona area as having a minimum of five documented historical phases: Islamic phase, Christian phase, 16th-17th century, 18th century dismantling and Spanish Civil War.

Furthermore, among the main discoveries there is a tank of construction after the 12th century, sitges d'època islàmica or a trinxera of the Spanish Civil War; There are various materials such as ceramic jerrets - some with Muslim traces -, leather appliqués, whip elements - which will need to be investigated exactly what they are -, stone architectural elements, glass bracelets... Some of the discovered materials, in addition, will be shown to all the attendees during the conference per se. such that in poguessin gaudir from ben to prop.

Rosa Pujol, mayor of Aitona, advances that “Our will is that a copy finalizes the study and cataloging of all troball archaeological material, all of this archaeological material becomes part of the Fruiturisme catalog so that we can dignify, explain, study and preserve all of this part of our history as a people”.