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Talayotic Culture sacred sites in Balearic Islands, Spain
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Biniai Nou Hypogea
Maó, Balearic Islands, Spain
Two rock-cut burial chambers near Maó hold the oldest radiocarbon-dated human remains found on Menorca, roughly 2290-2030 BC....
Ca na Costa Megalithic Tomb
Es Pujols, Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain
A stone chamber tomb on the edge of the Estany Pudent lagoon, Ca na Costa is the oldest confirmed megalithic monument in the Balearic Islands....
Cala Morell Necropolis
Ciutadella de Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
On the cliffs above Cala Morell, on the northern coast of Ciutadella de Menorca, fourteen caves were carved into the limestone as collective burial chambers, the earliest...
Calescoves Necropolis
Alaior, Balearic Islands, Spain
Calescoves is Menorca's largest prehistoric necropolis: roughly ninety to over a hundred burial caves (sources vary on the exact count) carved into the cliffs of a narrow...
Capocorb Vell
Llucmajor, Balearic Islands, Spain
Capocorb Vell is a Talayotic settlement on Mallorca's south coast where five dry-stone towers and roughly two dozen dwellings survive well enough to walk through the...
Claper des Gegant
Capdepera, Balearic Islands, Spain
Claper des Gegant, also called the Talaiot de s'Heretat, is a Talayotic-culture settlement above Canyamel in Capdepera, Mallorca — a fortified Bronze Age village whose...
Closos de Can Gaià
Felanitx, Balearic Islands, Spain
Closos de Can Gaià is a Bronze Age settlement near Portocolom, Mallorca, built from at least nine boat-shaped ('naveta') dwellings in cyclopean stone, occupied from...
Naveta de Rafal Rubí
Alaior, Balearic Islands, Spain
Near Alaior on Menorca, two cyclopean stone tombs called navetas stand a few paces apart, their curved 'inverted boat' walls built around 1500-1000 BCE to hold the...
Naveta des Tudons
Ciutadella de Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Naveta des Tudons rises from open fields west of Ciutadella like an overturned ship carved from limestone — a Bronze Age collective tomb where more than a hundred people...
Puig de sa Morisca
Calvià, Balearic Islands, Spain
Puig de sa Morisca is a hilltop archaeological park in Calvià, Mallorca, preserving a Talayotic settlement founded around 1300 BCE and later reoccupied by Roman and...
S'Hospitalet Vell
Manacor, Balearic Islands, Spain
A Bronze Age to Iron Age village on Mallorca's east coast, where boat-shaped naveta houses stand alongside the island's only talayot tower still capped with its original...
S'Illot Talayotic Settlement
Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Balearic Islands, Spain
S'Illot preserves one of eastern Mallorca's most complete Talayotic villages: a central tower, roughly three dozen houses, and a defensive wall of huge unworked stones,...
Ses Païsses
Artà, Balearic Islands, Spain
Ses Païsses is a Talayotic Bronze and Iron Age settlement on the edge of Artà, northeastern Mallorca, centered on a massive stone tower and enclosed by a cyclopean wall...
Ses Roques Llises Dolmen
Alaior, Balearic Islands, Spain
Ses Roques Llises is a Talayotic-culture dolmen near Alaior, Menorca, built as a collective stone tomb around 2100-1600 BCE....
So na Caçana
Alaior, Balearic Islands, Spain
So na Caçana is a Talayotic sanctuary complex near Alaior, Menorca, built around three taula enclosures rather than the single taula typical of most sites....
Son Catlar
Ciutadella de Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Son Catlar is the largest Talayotic settlement on Menorca, ringed by a nearly unbroken cyclopean wall almost a kilometer long....
Son Fornés
Montuïri, Balearic Islands, Spain
Son Fornés is a Talayotic-to-Roman-era settlement outside Montuïri, Mallorca, excavated since 1975 and home to the largest conserved talayot on the island....
Son Real Necropolis
Santa Margalida, Balearic Islands, Spain
On a low headland above the Bay of Alcúdia, more than a hundred rock-cut and built tombs mark where Talayotic-era Mallorcans buried their dead across several centuries....
Talatí de Dalt
Maó, Balearic Islands, Spain
A Talayotic settlement on Menorca where a T-shaped taula sanctuary, a truncated conical talayot, and rock-cut hypogea survive together inside one walled enclosure....
Torralba d'en Salort
Alaior, Balearic Islands, Spain
Torralba d'en Salort is a Talayotic settlement near Alaior, Menorca, built around a T-shaped stone taula that heritage authorities describe as the island's best-preserved...
Torre d'en Galmés
Alaior, Balearic Islands, Spain
On a hilltop between Alaior and Son Bou, Torre d'en Galmés spreads across the largest Talayotic settlement known in the Balearic Islands....
Torrellafuda
Ciutadella de Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Torrellafuda is a Talayotic settlement roughly nine kilometres from Ciutadella de Menorca, set inside a wild-olive and holm-oak grove that keeps the ruins shaded even at...
Torretrencada
Ciutadella de Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Torretrencada is a Talayotic settlement six kilometres from Ciutadella de Menorca, built around one of the island's most striking taula sanctuaries — a T-shaped megalith...
Trepucó
Maó, Balearic Islands, Spain
Trepucó is one of the largest Talayotic settlements in Menorca, centered on a monumental taula sanctuary and a talayot tower more than 26 metres wide....
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