The City Council of Poble Nou de Benitatxell is once again launching a new edition of the prestigious Puig Llorença Research Prize, which is endowed with a scholarship of 3.000 euros. This award, now biannual, aims to
improve and promote knowledge of the municipality, encourage the dissemination of culture and expand local historiography.
The contest will admit works by scientists from the fields of social, environmental and human sciences (history, geography, anthropology, archaeology, heritage, ethnography, philology...), with a special sensitivity to gender studies. The center of the investigations will have to be El Poble Nou de Benitatxell or the region, despite the fact that in the second case they will have to maintain a thematic and
direct documentary with the municipality.
Researchers may participate individually or collectively. The award, which will be chosen by an expert jury made up of five people of recognized prestige related to the world of culture and research, will be awarded to the best unpublished research project.
Applications can be submitted until September 30, 2022 in the general registry of the City Council, preferably in digital format. The consistory reserves the right to publish the research work for a maximum period of two years. The bases of the contest can be consulted on the municipal website.
The Puig Llorença research scholarship enjoys considerable prestige and is a cultural benchmark that even crosses the borders of the Marina Alta. In addition, it has given rise to interesting studies on architecture or toponymy. In 2008, with the disappearance of the Puig Llorença Cultural Association, it stopped convening, but in
2020, with the intention of rescuing the memory of the town, the government team restarted it after 12 years.
From this last call was born the interesting research work on the archaeological site of the Cova de les Bruixes, carried out by the archaeologist Miquel Sánchez Signes.
