The deputy of the Socialist Group, Alfonso Martínez baths, asks the regional government in a motion in the Assembly, to consider and take into account the necessary financial contribution to allow consolidate a part of the city wall of the site of La Bastida and prevent its collapse by rain runoff, which would be a loss of enormous historical value.
It also requires a strategy for coordination, organization and financing, to ensure full excavation of this site, research, museological and public performance, in collaboration with the State Administration, the City of Totana and the Autonomous University defined from Barcelona.
La Bastida is located on public land in the municipality of Totana.
It was one of the first cities in continental Europe, more than 4,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age.
It was a peculiar city, hidden, surrounded by mountains and away from the main roads and fertile land.
It occupies an area of ​​45,000 m2 between the mountains of Espuña and La Tercia.
Alfonso Martinez said that "extraordinary relevance has been hidden for a long time under veils of ignorance, neglect and maltreatment, although La Bastida is known internationally for almost century and a half ago."
In 2005 La Bastida was declared of cultural interest;
in 2008, the municipal, regional and state governments, along with the Autonomous University of Barcelona agreed to start the project more complete excavation of those had been undertaken.
Between 2009 and 2013 almost 7,000 m2 of the site, approximately 15% were excavated.
Also, many of the buildings restored, conditioning them for their visit and even today are still investigating thousands of findings, "revealing a forgotten city that knew only bits and pieces isolated".
Funding for this project excavation was carried out by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the regional government, while maintaining and monitoring the installations took the city of Totana.
In 2013 the excavation of the site was stopped by the lack of economic resources, pending the consolidation of a part of the wall, discovered in the last phase of the excavation, which was financed with a contribution of 80,000 euros from the regional government, scheduled for 2014. However, to date it has not done so, with the risk that this part of the wall of enormous archaeological value, can be washed away by rainwater runoff.
The Socialist deputy reports that La Bastida was a city that came to accommodate almost 1,000 people, "a unique place of great historical, cultural and economic value."
This site is an international benchmark in the world of archeology, "so its value is required to also make it a benchmark in the world of culture and tourism".
To this end, considers it necessary to define a strategy for all public administrations, to ensure the future "of a place that has surprised everyone," he concludes.
