by Ronda | Jul 28, 2014 | 2014 Expedition, Alcúdia: History, Alcúdia: Local Culture, Excavation of Ca'n Fanals
Prior to Moorish settlement of old Pollèntia and continuing into the construction of medieval Alcúdia, the necropolis that served Pollèntia into Christian antiquity was covered and lost. At some point, the soil above the cemetery was deep enough to become attractive...
by Ronda | Jul 17, 2014 | 2014 Expedition, Alcúdia: History, Alcúdia: Local Culture, Pollentia
Visible from most points in the Pollèntia excavation site, the Iglesia de Sant Jaume was completed in 1893, on the site of an earlier church dating to the fourteenth century. The original structure collapsed in 1870 and was replaced by the current Gothic church...
by Ronda | Jul 15, 2014 | 2014 Expedition, Alcúdia: History, Excavation of Ca'n Fanals, Pollentia
Pollèntia Directors Miguel Cao and Esther Chávez gave the UP Team three tasks for Week One of the expedition: 1) survey the old farm Ca’n Fanals, site of the Roman era necropolis, and tie the survey to known control points for the current excavations; 2) create...
by Ronda | Jul 13, 2014 | 2014 Expedition, Alcúdia: History, Pollentia
Quintus Caecilius Metellus founded Pollèntia as a strategic Roman outpost on the Balearic Island of Mallorca in 123 BCE. By the third century CE, Pollèntia had become a major urban colonia with an area of about 20 hectares. Infrastructure included housing, a forum...
by Maria Erb | Jun 26, 2014 | 2014 Expedition, Alcúdia: History, Alcúdia: Local Culture, Excavation of Ca'n Fanals
Catholics are proud of their ancient heritage of cemeteries–from the catacombs of Rome to the churchyard cemeteries of Catholic Europe and early America to today’s diocesan and parish cemeteries. Claims about how the Church has always cared for her dead and kept...