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ESPERA ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM

Espera

Espera Archaeology Museum

Over the Iberian-Roman funeral rites, it links pieces from the Esperilla and Carissa Aurelia sites

The Espera Archaeology Museum, in the town's Cultural Centre, offers a permanent exhibition on the Iberian-Roman funeral traditions, with information on the characteristics and importance of rites from that period. Incorporated to the Archaeological Route in the White Villages from the Mountain Range, it stands out for the Iberian-Roman big sized statues (dating back from the 4th to the 2nd centuries b.C.), discovered in the Esperilla site and representing five lions, a boar, a deer, a warrior and a lady. Esperilla is 1.5 kilometres from Espera and was first populated in the Neolithic. Houses carved in stone and wells have been found in this site.
The Archaeology Museum has also pre historical and old pieces of big value from the Carissa Aurelia site. The display includes polished axes, silex sheets, Neolithic ceramics, eastern elements (dating back to the 4th to the 5th centuries b.C)., and Roman ceramics from the 3rd to the 1st centuries b.C. There is also an important funeral urn from the 1st century. Carissa Aurelia is 7 kilometres from town and keeps the rests of an Iberian population where a Roman town was set, coining its own currency in the 1st century b.C. A big necropolis surrounds the fenced urban site, with an hydraulic system for the and storage and supply of water.