We were at the site of Moixent or Bastida de Les Alcusses, in Valencia, an Iberian town that hardly had a century of life 400 years before Christ. Three generations dwelled there. We know little about them, except that they had to flee when their streets and houses were burned not by foreign invaders, but by enemies from a nearby village with whom they shared language, customs, beliefs. Nobody settled again on that flat and elongated summit that has privileged views over two valleys. The vegetation, the rain and the torrents covered walls, patios, ovens, warehouses, cisterns, mills, looms that remained intact until 1928, and thanks to a neighbor from Ontinyent who had detected some boulders, the excavations began.
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