Archaeological sites Spain

This archaeological site provides information on the culture of the Argar, which belongs to the Bronze Age and developed around 1800 BC. It is a fairly large and partially reconstructed site, the oldest in Andalusia. We can therefore see an Argaric village with its houses housing burials. It is instructive and if you come at sunset, the light and landscape are quite sumptuous.

Dated more than 1,600 years ago, this archaeological site includes the Cañada de los gatos, the most remarkable site of the Aboriginal period. It covers 19 stone structures, including about ten houses. Attesting to the importance of this coastal village, taking advantage of the running water from the caves. The tour also allows you to discover the cemetery of Las Crucecitas as well as "burial" caves, scattered on the eastern side of the caves. With beautiful views of Puerto de Mogán and the entrance to the caves from the cafeteria mirador.

With more than 137,000 m² of occupied space and nearly 900 graves, it is one of the largest Aboriginal cemeteries on the island. The graves are located on a "malpaís", a pile of rocks from an avalanche and dated about 1300 years ago. Of particular note is the "King's Burial Ground", a strategic point illuminated only on the day of the solstice. The circuit and the interpretation centre provide more information on the concepts of life and death of the Aborigines. With views of the impressive rocks of Amurga from the necropolis.

The remains at So na Caçana tend to be considered those of a group of religious sanctuaries (a taula and two talayots) linked to several surrounding talayotic villages. However, there are indications that the site may have been a village in its own right: a few dwellings, two stone circles and a necropolis comprising a large number of funerary hypogeums. The site was occupied right up to Roman times, as demonstrated by the archaeological finds in some of its monuments.

Covering an area of 42,420 m², the ancient talayotic village of Son Catlar, located on the road between Ciutadella and Son Saura, was occupied until Roman times (123 B.C.) and features circular talayots (the site's oldest structures) and a cyclopean wall almost 900 metres long. The latter is the only prehistoric wall preserved in its entirety in which the talayotic construction system and the later square towers attached to it can be distinguished.

Talatí de Dalt is one of the island's most remarkable prehistoric villages. It is home to a number of monuments: a talayot with an elliptical plan and truncated cone-shaped profile, a taula enclosure, a housing area and a number of excavated caves. A column and its capital rest on the side of the central T, probably because they fell off by accident. During excavations, several ritual objects were found here, including the bony remains of lambs and goats, and amphorae for wine.

Nestling in the cliffs of Cales Coves, which form two coves, are some ninety caves carved out of the rock: this is Menorca's most important Talayotic necropolis. While the earliest caves date back to the Bronze Age, the most recent date back to the Iron Age (when funerary rites were combined with cremation). The objects found here are now housed in the Menorca Museum. During Roman times, the site was the object of religious pilgrimages.