The ethnographic library of Puçol
09-02-2023
It was in 2018 when the new management of the Puçol School Museum, together with the usual technical team, decided to give a 360º turn to its reference library: why not move the novel, the essay, the old manuals to another space in the museum? , etc. and create a single set, mainly ethnography, for public consultation by any interested ...
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The bar “El Pino” (Algorós). History of Francisco and Asunción, “la Barraquera”
22-09-2022
(According to the testimonies of Asunción -Susi- Esclapez Mora, Carmen Gómiz Martínez, Asunción Sansano Mallorca, Gaspar Quirant Pomares "el Periquín" and Vicente Vicente Antón "el Arrendador", best man at Susi's parents' wedding) At kilometer four of the CV-851 highway, the well-known “del Leó...
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Women and sewing: commentary on a photograph
07-09-2022
As you know, the Puçol Educational-Museum Project has as its raison d'être the safeguarding and dissemination of the traditional culture of our environment. Within this great project, we develop activities based on the recovery of material and immaterial goods (donations, inventory, conservation, recovery of oral memory...) and their d...
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Footwear as heritage
02-07-2022
The strong industrial imprint of Elche has its roots in an active and diversified craft whose evolution, already in the middle of the 19th century, will result in the transition to a modern secondary sector, a process masterfully explained by the teacher (and friend) José Antonio Miranda. Throughout the nine hundred, footwear and components ...
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Alfalfa, a primary crop in our environment
29-04-2022
If we think of the most common crops in Camp d'Elx, we probably don’t have alfalfa in mind. However, this herb was a fundamental element in our entire rural environment until relatively recently, in addition to one of the most abundant.Its purpose was not human consumption, but it did not have less weight, since it was destined to feed a very...
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The biggest show in the world
19-04-2022
Recently -17 April- has been commemorated the World Day of the Circus, an anniversary that celebrates an ancient tradition, formed by a set of activities (a way of life...) that brings to memory the skill, risk, effort or fun. Today, in accordance with the legislation regulating its operation, the circus continues to reinvent itself to offer the be...
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