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Inauguration: “Museu del Palmerar” (Elx Palm Groves Museum)
Elx, 18th May 2005 at 7 p.m.
Hort de Sant Plàcid (12, Porta de la Morera Street)
The “Institut Municipal de Turisme” has endowed the city with a new area from where to start your visit to the Elx Palm Groves, enabling you to fully enjoy this natural environment.
The “Museu del Palmerar” reveals the origins, history, development and culture of the Elx Palm Groves, making it much easier for you to understand the reasons why the UNESCO classed this exceptional site as World Heritage.
The Museum is located in a traditional farmhouse in the centre of town known as “Hort de Sant Plàcid” (very near the Huerto del Cura Garden). The rooms have been themed to give you a full historical report of the palm groves’ history, the palm tree usages and its evolution making it one of the city’s main symbols. Thus, it is conceived as a collection within the palm forest where the tourist will receive in-depth knowledge of its historical and cultural symbolism whilst enjoying the site’s unique beauty.
All this can be done walking through different rooms in which, videos, collages, boards and other exhibition elements, including touch screens and an enveloping sound where a mosaic of images, compositions and data are projected, situating and informing the visitor with all kind of details.
This route continues with the visit to the surrounding palm grove, an extension of the indoors museum’s visit.