TORRETRENCADA
(Villages)



Taula of Torretrencada

LOCATION:

Situation

Near the "Camí Vell de Maó", at 6.9 km of Ciutadella and next to the house of "Torretrencada". You arrive taking the aforementioned road in Ciutadella or, for the current highway from Ciutadella to Maó, turning to the right for the first asphalted road that we find after the parking of the "Naveta d'Es Tudons", a road that connects with the "Camí Vell" about two kilometres further (when we arrive to it, we will turn to the left and we will travel 3.4 km until the parking of "Torretrencada", where the path that leads to the site begins).


MUNICIPAL DISTRICT:

Ciutadella.


DESCRIPTION:

A "talayot" in not very well preserved condition and half covered for the vegetation, a good exemplar of "taula" with its precinct practically missing, a possible "cistern" and the probable remains of a house are the most visible things in this village in which we also highlight a series of anthropomorphous tombs dug in the rock before the aforementioned house.


CHRONOLOGY:

The anthropomorphous tombs are possibly of medieval time, which can give us an idea of the long occupation that the village enjoyed, or, as minimum, its area.


NEIGHBOURING MONUMENTS:

Not far away, through the fields, there is the village of "Torrellafuda".


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