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The archaeological excavation, which has been carried out on the site where the construction of a residential building will begin, provides new data on the Roman and medieval past of our city.

Archaeological works carried out on the site of Temple’s street has made it possible to document the remains of two Roman domus. In the peristyle of the courtyard of one of the houses was located an ara – a pedestal-shaped stone altar used in religious ceremonies. The finding came as a surprise to find that the piece is identical to another that was found in 1969 on the same site, and that we can see in the Garden of Quintus Licini. It is rare to find two votive altars used simultaneously in the same house. This, and the magnificent alabaster vase that was also found in the same area, has opened up several working hypotheses about ritual practices, which are being worked on.

 

 

The other element that has allowed to recover this last phase of the excavation is a structure that is interpreted as a retaining wall that supported the earthwork of the highest part of the hill, where the Romans built the temple of Baetulo, of which remains are preserved in the right part of the church of Santa Maria. We must keep in mind that part of the medieval sagrera occupies the space where the Baetulo forum was.

Despite being a careless construction technique, this is one of the few structural elements from the medieval period that we have found, by now, in Badalona. This structure, together with the presence of others from the 18th-19th centuries (see link at the bottom of the note), shows us how the city grew once Baetulo was abandoned.

The documented remains described will be covered and preserved under the foundation of the new building and the pieces will become part of the collection of the Museum of Badalona.

Download press release (in catalan)

 

 

https://www.museudebadalona.cat/intervencio-arqueologica-al-carrer-del-temple/

For further information:
Museum of Badalona
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The health emergency caused by COVID-19 has led to changes and adaptations of the Museum’s activities and proposals for both schools and groups of adults and individuals. All necessary measures have been taken to ensure the safety of our visitors and new materials have been produced to provide quality content, both face-to-face and virtual, for schools and groups. A wide range of proposals for all ages that will allow us to continue spreading the history of the Roman city of Baetulo and its inhabitants.

We also remind you that the Museum is open for visits from Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 2 pm and from 5 pm to 8 pm and on weekends and public holidays from 10 am to 2 pm and the House of the Dolphins continues, from this autumn, opening every second Sunday of the month. In the case of the Garden of Quintus Licini, given its characteristics and dimensions, will remain closed.

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The exhibition The Diamond of Badalona. Since 1870, which the Museum has conceived and produced to commemorate the 150-year history of the Badalona Anís del Mono’s factory,  can be seen from September 24th to January 11th at the headquarters of the Osborne Foundation -current owner of the brand-, in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz).

The exhibition, which is open from Monday to Sunday from 10 am to 3 pm, allows to discover the origins and evolution of this emblematic brand that has taken the name of Badalona around the world, but also its production system – unalterable since the late nineteenth century – and more curious aspects related to the brand such as the name, the label or the origin of its characteristic diamond bottle.

 

 

A new school year begins and the Museum of Badalona begins its virtual classroom, a new educational project with which it wants to continue being an essential resource to study the heritage of our city and to know its Roman legacy.

We are aware that the health alert situation that we are living in can end up limiting classroom outings and can even lead to the interruption of face-to-face training and the need to work online from home. Faced with this situation, the Museum’s educational service has developed a program of activities that will allow us to keep in touch with teachers and students and continue to explain the story of our ancestors.

The Museum’s contribution to non-contact teaching goes through an exciting offer of online resources, which we present with the following titles:

1. Two asses? This is a ruin !! The Roman currency
2. What is written on it? Latin epigraphy
3. Are we free? Philosophical debate
4. When we were rich. The wine economy of Baetulo
5. What a traffic jam in the decumanus! Communications when all roads led to Rome
6. To lick your fingers. How a village was fed
7. Do you know what they say in the forum? Fake news in the Roman style
8. With a woman’s voice. The role of women in Roman society
9. Let the earth be light to you. The farewell ritual

The webinar format of these proposals will help us to make the session an excuse to learn, interact and arouse interest in everyday life in Roman times, inviting us to develop and test the critical sense of the students. The proposals have been designed according to the curriculum of Social Sciences and respond to the needs of basic skills, from middle school to high school.

7 years ago died the artist Josep Cifuentes Uclés (Badalona 1952-La Roca del Vallès 2013), known as Uclés. A painter, illustrator and sculptor trained at the School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trades of Badalona and at the University of Barcelona, ​​he developed a brilliant international career, exhibiting in Paris, Milan, Brussels, Amsterdam and Los Angeles.

His work has been the subject of several books and catalogs. Among the critics and writers who have spoken about it are Glòria Bosch, M. Mercè Marçal, Julià de Jòdar, Vicenç Altaió, Sam Abrams and Matthew Tree.

He always had a strong relationship with the Museu de Badalona (where he had had his first exhibition), where in 1987 he presented the traveling exhibition Històries d’olors, with 19 works on paper inspired by different moments in the city’s history that were acquired by the Museum.

Later, in 2006, he had another exhibition with a catalog, entitled Manual de supervivència en una gran ciutat.. Shortly afterwards, the City Council acquired the work Ajuda’m, which can now be seen in the Viver’s lobby, and which shows us the dreamlike and surreal world so characteristic of this artist.

In 2014, after the death of Uclés, the Badalona City Council and the Museum of Badalona, in collaboration with the Museum of Granollers, dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him, which was curated by art critic and poet Vicenç Altaió and that included also the publication of a book. The exhibition took place in the exhibition hall of the El Carme Cultural Center, which was then renamed Sala Josep Uclés.