Located almost exclusively in the southern half of the island, those "big" population's nuclei appeared, in Minorca, probably during the Talayotic I (1400-100 B.C.), substituting the more or less dispersed population of the Pretalayotic stage (it is possible, however, that at the end of this first period, quite complex establishments already existed).

All they present an articulation with the help of streets and squares that make possible the circulation, the quick defence and the use of the floor and they seem, in general, to have grown in concentric circles starting from a "talayot" or talayots, group, many times pre-existent, near which the religious enclosure of the "taula" is, although in the western Minorca, their development could have followed another model, since, although the "taula" continuous being in the centre of the village, the talayots are outlying. Stores, shops, markets, corrals and stables, systems of collection of water and, evidently, houses would complete a structure in occasions defended by means of potent walls in which access doors with lintels and monolithic jambs open up.

In what refers to their distribution, all are far from the coast, which, however, dominate visually, while the size differences that we observed lead to think of an allotment of the territory, with big towns that would dominate areas where other smaller entities are located.