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The Archaeological Museum increases its fund thanks to the legacy of Juan Bisquert Oltra

23 June 2017 - 08: 59

The family of Juan Bisquert Oltra has recently donated to the Archaeological Museum of the City of Dénia a collection of twelve archaeological amphorae of underwater origin that have allowed to create the legacy Juan Bisquert Oltra.

These are twelve underwater amphoras belonging to a wide chronological range, ranging from the first century to the nineteenth century. From the City of Denia, the councilman of culture, Rafa Carrió, Thanked the collaboration to the relatives of Juan Bisquert, whose donation allows to enrich the fund of the museum.

As explained by the municipal archaeologist, Josep Antoni Gisbert, Juan Bisquert Oltra (1938 - 2013) came from a secular dianense family, with origins in Baix la Mar and linked to the Dénia toy industry. No. 18 of Ramón y Cajal Street and no. 45 of Pare Pere street would be the headquarters of the toy factory that Juan Bisquert would found in 1935 and 1940 was set up as Sapena and Bisquert in operation until the sudden death of his father, Juan Bisquert, in 1956. The factory maintained a wooden toy production painted with bright colors, characteristic of the Dénia of the first decades of the postwar period.

His passion for fishing allowed him to combine his work with a long schedule of trips to the sea. Juan Bisquert was not one of those who strayed too far from the coast and he liked to fish near the beaches. While some traveled far to search for tuna of notable weight and size, Juan searched for tuna in the Marinas, in front of the Hotel Los Angeles, Or sepias in the Almadraba.

The Nautical Club of Denia was the shelter where he would spend days and hours of recreation with his friends, with the company of letters and domino games that offered the club the eighties and nineties that peculiar sonorous landscape of chips starred with force on the board.

Between September of 1995 and in January of 1998 it held the position of president of the Nautical Club of Dénia. During those years, the presiding board succeeded in initiating, at 1996, the Canal Cup, the crossing between Dénia and San Antonio, on the island of Ibiza, which this year will be the 21st edition, and which was and is, along with Participation in the Ruta de la Sal, two major sporting events of the club dianense.

The heirs of Juan Bisquert have wanted their collection of underwater archeological wrecks to be carefully preserved in the background of the Archaeological Museum of Denia that soon will be exposed for public enjoyment.

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