With the 100 × 100 Fundació awards ceremony, «La Sala» del Castillo is inaugurated

This afternoon, starting at 20:100 p.m., the 100xXNUMX Fundació Awards will be presented, which are awarded each year by the Dénia Foundation in the sections on culture, sport and society. The event will be held in the new audiovisual room of the Castle, "La Sala", which was presented yesterday to the media.

"La Sala" was built under Plan E in 2009, providing the main monument of the city with an infrastructure that it lacked and, for the councilor for culture, Pepa Font, "necessary and to which there is to give the suitable utility".

Although at the moment it will not have a stable schedule, it will be in January of next year when it begins to offer documentaries related to the city and its history to the visitors of the castle. We also want to make it a place where conferences and talks can be held, creating a dynamic room that puts into value the work carried out by the department of culture.

December is expected to special draperies system to darken the room and facilitate the viewing of documentaries during the day remains installed, as there will be two daily screenings: morning and afternoon.

The culture department is currently working on the programming of the year 2013, which they want to direct to both visitors and dianenses and schoolchildren, and recognizes that 2013 will be a year of experimentation that will help them assess whether the offer of "La Sala" is The right one.

By the time conferences are scheduled in November and December by the municipal archaeologist, Josep Antoni Gisbert, and Professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia Juan Carlos Navarro Fajardo.

Councilwoman of Culture, Pepa Font, and municipal arquólogo, Josep GisbertThey also announced that they are studying the possibility of baptizing this new space as "José Carrasco", who was the one who arranged for the Castle, which was privately owned, to become municipal.