{"id":41610,"date":"2019-06-28T15:07:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icac.cat\/en\/?p=41610"},"modified":"2019-07-01T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T13:15:40","slug":"do-catalonia-and-the-icac-will-collaborate-in-a-reserch-project-in-the-roman-villa-mas-dels-frares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icac.cat\/en\/actualitat\/noticies\/2019\/do-catalonia-and-the-icac-will-collaborate-in-a-reserch-project-in-the-roman-villa-mas-dels-frares\/","title":{"rendered":"DO Catalonia and the ICAC will collaborate in a reserch project in the Roman villa Mas dels Frares"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Council of DO Catalonia<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and the\u00a0ICAC<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0signed a collaboration agreement that will make possible the investigation of the\u00a0archaeological site of the Roman villa of\u00a0 Mas dels Frares<\/strong>\u00a0winery (Constant\u00ed, Tarragona).<\/p>\n

The project, led by the ICAC researcher Josep Maria Macias<\/a>, includes experimental archaeological works based on a possible centre of wine exploitation from the Roman period. The research project will be linked to training activities at the Mas dels Frares experimental winery, located next to the archaeological site and owned by the Rovira i Virgili University.<\/p>\n

Thus, a geophysical prospecting campaign will be launched shortly in the site besides three archaeological excavations in the eastern sector of the Roman villa. Results will allow the development of analysis works of the archaeological site, as well as outreach and knowledge dissemination.<\/p>\n

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From left to right, Josep M. Macias, Jordi L\u00f3pez, Xavier Pi\u00e9 and Josep M. Palet\u00a0
\"Llic\u00e8ncia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DO Catalonia will support the project funding during the next four years.\u00a0One of the most outstanding features of winemaking in Catalonia is precisely its long tradition since Phoenicians and Romans came to our shores. ICAC research can provide new historical references of this millenary tradition and demonstrate that in a space adjacent to the same experimental winery Mas dels Frares, where nowadays the oenology school of the URV, the wine was already made in Roman times.<\/p>\n

After the collaboration agreement signature, the ICAC researchers offered a guided visit to the archaeological site and explained more details of the research project designed. There were speeches of the acting director of the ICAC, Josep Maria Palet<\/strong><\/a>, and the researchers\u00a0Josep Maria Macias<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Jordi L\u00f3pez<\/a><\/strong>, who already worked at the archaeological site, in an excavation project (2018) in the interior of the Roman villa and consolidation\u00a0 works of an apsidal wall belonging to the thermal baths of the building.<\/p>\n

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In the middle, researcher Josep Maria Macias during the visit to the archaeological site Mas dels Frares
\"Llic\u00e8ncia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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More information in a clip of Tac12 TV (in Catalan):<\/h5>\n