Menorca & Mahón
Menorca joins Maó's natural harbor and Ciutadella's historic streets with Talayotic stone monuments, agropastoral landscapes, protected nature, villages, lighthouses and a coast of contrasting coves.
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Menorca's stone monuments still read as one connected island landscape.
UNESCO's Talayotic Menorca property brings together nine component areas spanning the island's Migjorn and Tramuntana landscapes. Built from the Bronze Age around 1600 BCE to the Late Iron Age ending in 123 BCE, its mortarless cyclopean architecture includes navetas, talayots, taula enclosures, circular houses, hypogea and hypostyles. Their placement, visual connections and astronomical orientations reveal more than isolated ruins: they trace changing communities, belief, social organization and dry-stone practice across Menorca's agropastoral setting.
Story source: UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Talayotic MenorcaKnow the gateway behind the destination.
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