Throughout history, the bay of Xàbia has been a place of refuge for boats. And as a result of that presence, continued over time, its seabed has important archaeological remains that specialists from the University of Alicante are bringing to light.
Apart from this presence, now, the specialists are going to start technical work in the area throughout the month of October in which a couple of divers found this summer fifty coins from the late Roman period, as we have already told you. last week in Hoy por Hoy Alicante.
The professor of Ancient History at the University of Alicante, Jaime Molina, assures that this Portitxol treasure had nothing to do with a shipwreck. He believes that the coins, supposedly in a chest, were hidden to protect them from the Barbarian invasions that were taking place in the Iberian Peninsula at that time.
In the rest of the bay, experts from the University of Alicante have worked to locate the remains of boats that sank in it. And as a result of this activity, they have already been able to catalog more than 150 anchors from different periods.
All of them, although archaeologists are interested in the most ancient, make up a rich underwater heritage. And for this reason, taking into account the quality of the waters and the seabeds of the bay, together with the city council and the Generalitat, work is being done – says the professor – on the creation of an underwater route that will become an additional attraction. Township.
Molina assures that all these challenges have been located in the middle of the bay; the other part, he adds, remains to be prospected.
With what is known, they hope that this route, for divers with a minimum training, can be underway next summer.
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