BELLAVENTURA
(Taulas)

LOCATION:

Near the asphalted rural road that from Ciutadella leads to Cala Macarella. On the left-hand side, past Sant Joan de Missa. Behind the house with the same name.

Ciutadella.

It is the only one in which the door of the precinct (a precinct with a horseshoe plan of rectilinear facade, rather convex than concave) conserves the lintel in situ.

The stone-support seems to have been violently "decapitated" and the stone-capital, broken in two fragments, is leaned on it at the foot.

Stone-support:

• Height: 2.40-2.47 m.
• Width: 1.40-1.50 m.
• Thickness: 0.53-0.60 m.

Stone-capital:

• Length: 2.15 m.
• Width: 1.00 m.
• Thickness: 0.40 m.

The monuments of this type where an archaeological excavation in due form and a good use of the 14C have allowed to approach us to their construction or "working" date are very few, this is without a doubt the reason for which there are two faced theories that fix their appearance: this one led by Ll. Plantalamor, Director of the Museu de Menorca, that locates it toward the final time of the Talayotic I (1500/1400-1000 B.C.) and the most extended, supported, among other, by M. Fernández-Miranda, which believes them more recent, of the Talayotic III (800-450 B.C.), date with which we are personally more agree and that we will use in this guide when we do not have better indications.

The village of "Son Catlar", the bigger one in the western sector of the island, located on the rural road that leads to the beach of the Arenal de Son Saura, which leaves this aforementioned that goes to Cala Macarella, but before Sant Joan de Missa.