“Finestres de la memòria” (Memory windows) is an interactive tourist resource designed and developed to visualize reconstructions of architectural or archaeological elements on the current landscape.
On a metal support, a glass window is placed with a silkscreen print of an interpretative illustration coinciding with the real landscape, in which a graphic reconstruction of the same landscape at certain moments in history is made.
Locations
The described resource was installed in different points of the municipality of Cabanes with architectural, archaeological, historical or landscape elements of great uniqueness, forming a route of interpretive windows.
1. Roman arch of Cabanes (2nd c. ad)
We are going to travel with our imagination more than 2,000 years ago in history, to the Roman Empire. You find yourself in a frozen moment in history, in a very special place in the entire Valencian territory. You are before the Arch of Cabanes, a monument of honorific-funerary nature associated with a rural town located very close to where you are.
The location of the arch is of no coincidence, we are at the confluence of the Via Augusta, the longest road in the Iberian Peninsula that ran from Cádiz to the Pyrenees, with the road that since ancient times linked the coast with the interior, in which different products were transported in robust wooden carts.
2. Els Hostals Square (One afternoon in May 1964)
We are now going to travel with our imagination to the 60s, specifically to 1964.
Knives, razors and scissors are sharpened! A sharpener works at the wheel to return the cut to a neighbor's knife, while at the Buen Suceso fountain women gather with jugs to fill them with water, at a time when there was no drinking water in their homes.
A Vespa at high speed crosses the square. It is Carmen the portrait photographer, a resident of this town and also known as “Xata”. She comes from the Ribera de Cabanes to portray a newly married couple, giving a good subject of conversation to a group of women sitting in the cool at dusk.
3. Sant Antoni Gateway (Middle Ages 14th C.)
We invite you to travel through history to the Middle Ages. You are in front of the Sant Antoni Gateway, built in the 14th century. This is what one of the old portals that gave southern access to the medieval town must have looked like.
For centuries, the town of Cabanes was surrounded and protected by a set of walls, fortified towers and several access portals that were closed at nightfall.
4. Tossal del Mortòrum (Iron Age. 7th - 6th C. BC)
We invite you to travel back in history 2,700 years ago, to the Iron Age. You find yourself in a frozen moment in history. You are in front of the Tossal del Mortòrum, an Iberian town dedicated to trade and exchange of products with the Phoenician and Greek merchants who navigated the Mediterranean. This town was also an important defensive and visual control point of the entire the coastal plain of the Ribera de Cabanes, Torreblanca and Oropesa del Mar.
The Iberian town in which you are located was built in an environment where there were iron and lead mines. The town of Mortòrum was an important settlement protected by a particularly powerful wall on its northern side. Most of the buildings in the town were used as warehouses and only a few were actual homes.
5. Funeral Mound (Bronze Age 1740-1020 BC)
We invite you to travel back in history 4,000 years ago, to the Bronze Age. You find yourself in a frozen moment in history in front of the Mortòrum funerary mound, a type of burial of megalithic tradition unique in the Castellón area, used in the second millennium BC to deposit the deceased.
If you look at the coastline, in front of the Mortòrum, you can locate the Torre la Sal port, used since the 7th century BC, to carry out commercial exchanges through the different maritime routes through the Mediterranean. Due to this increasing activity, Torre la Sal became one of the most important Iberian towns in Castellón.
6. Carabineros Barracks (One morning in 1945)
We are now going to travel with our imagination to 1945. You find yourself in a frozen moment in the history of the fishing village of Torre la Sal, one morning in 1945, in front of the barracks that the Civil Guard inherited from the long gone Carabineros, dedicated to the surveillance of the coast and the control of smuggling, which was very common on these coasts.
The ancient inhabitants of Torre la Sal lived by working in the fields and fishing. In front of you, you can see a woman fixing a fishing tackle and a farmer on his way to work.
7. Neolithic Settlement of Prat de Cabanes-Torreblanca (III millennium BC)
We are now going to travel with our imagination 5,000 years back in history, to a time that marked the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Chalcolithic: The Copper Age. You find yourself in a frozen moment in history in Prat de Cabanes-Torreblanca, next to the sea, where you can contemplate a group of the ancient inhabitants of La Ribera de Cabanes.
The rock platform stretching out in front of you is a natural fossil dune formation. It is known that at this time it was much wider, extending many meters out to sea. In this place archaeologists have found 246 pits or silos, some of them used to store cereals. This area is also supposed to be a place where the inhabitants of this territory fished or collected different foods from the sea.
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