TORRELLISÀ VELL
(Taulas)


Taula de Torrellisà Vell

LOCATION:

Situation

It is near the house with this name, to which you arrive taking a road ("Camí de l'Alblagai") that there is on the right of the highway Alaior-Cala en Porter in front of the "Camí de Cotaines". The road to the house is the first one not asphalted that leaves this way on the left-hand side, and the taula is at some 150 m of the building.


MUNICIPAL DISTRICT:

Alaior.


DESCRIPTION:

In good conservation state, it presents the particularity of to be surrounded by a stone enclosure in dry that is not the original, but inside the walls of which the elements of the primitive enclosure are.


DIMENSIONS:

Stone-support:

Stone-capital:


CHRONOLOGY:

Talayotic III (800-450 B.C.) (see the taula of "Bellaventura").


NEIGHBOURING MONUMENTS:

Behind the enclosure, we can see a great talayot half covered by the vegetation; near the asphalted road, there is another; and, between both, some construction in ramshackle state is located.


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