The exhibition "The University of Valencia and its regional surroundings: Requena-Utiel Plateau" opened last Monday, 21 October, in Requena. The opening ceremony was chaired by the Vice‐Principal for Territorial Projection and Participation, Jorge Hermosilla, the exhibition curator, Juan Piqueras, and City Councillors for Education and Culture of the City of Requena, Ana Valle and Paul Martinez, respectively. The 31 panels in the exhibition show the endogenous characteristics of an emblematic place of the interior of Valencia.
The Requena-Utiel Plateau exhibition is in the atrium of the Principal Museum of Requena, where he remained until 25 November. Geography Professor John Piqueras highlighted, at the opening ceremony, the suitability of the panels: "The authors have been able to summarize in the 31 panels the characteristics of this land, our history, our vineyards, our speech ... It is a very complete exhibition in whose elaboration many specialists in multiple disciplines have participated, both of the teaching staff of the University and experts related to the region".
The exhibition, produced by the University of Valencia through the support unit of this Office of the Vice-Principal, is an ensemble piece of multidisciplinary nature, in which specialists of many areas have participated. This includes the most unique aspects of Requena-Utiel Plateau, such as Las Hoces del Cabriel, viticulture, Kelin site… while it analyses interesting scenic values, historic, cultural, socioeconomic, etc., of this Valencian region .
The 31 panels in this exhibition have been developed for teaching and research staff of the University, and other specialists involved in the region (Council for the Regulation of the Certificate of Origin Utiel-Requena, Requena City Council, Ministry of Infrastructures, Territory and Environment, etc.).
Specialists and/or departments of the University who have participated in the exhibition are: Juan Piqueras Haba, Alejandro Pérez Cueva, Carmen Sanchis Deusa, Ana Camarasa Belmonte, Joan Carles Membrado Tena, Emilio Iranzo or ESTEPA Research Unit (Departament of Geography), Daniel Muñoz Navarro (Departament of Modern history), Consuelo Mata Parreño and David Quixal Santos (Department of Prehistory and Archaeology), Rafael Gil Salinas (Departament of History of Art), Miguel Requena Jiménez (Departament of History Antiquity and Written Culture), Antonio Briz Gómez (Departament of Spanish Philology), Rafael Narbona Vizcaíno (Department of Medieval History), Ignacio García Ferrandis y Ascensio Carratalá Beguer (Department of Experimental and Social Sciences Teaching), Adrià Besó Ros (Departament of History of Art), Mercedes Fernández Martínez, Ángeles Raduán Ripoll, Pilar Navarro Gómez, Javier Lluch Tarazona y Francisco Javier Aznar Avedaño (Departament of Zoology), Plini Montoya Belló (Departament of Geology) and experts of del Departament of Territorial Planning.
The University of Valencia, through the Office of the Vice‐Principal for Territorial Projection and Participation, intended with this and other initiatives become visible in towns and Valencian regions in order to strengthen relations between the university community and local companies in their area of influence. The exhibition will be at the Municipal Museum of Requena until 25 November, after this date it will continue its journey through the towns of Requena-Utiel.
Last update: 22 de october de 2013 16:55.
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