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LOCATION:

You will arrive by the highway that goes of the one of Ciutadella to Cala Macarella until the "Arenal de Son Saura".

Ciutadella.

The defensive wall of Son Catlar is without a doubt the best conserved of all those of the Talayotic towns of the island, only lacking some parts that have been replaced at the present time with much smaller stones. And we say much smaller because if for something the whole structure is characterized is for its ciclopean character, which, on the other hand, is not at all homogeneous, because we find, beside big orthostatic and long stones placed vertically on a baseboard of small horizontal blocks (northern sector), diverse form stones fitted perfectly (style, saving the distances, "Machu Pichu") without evident baseboard (maybe it is still in the subsoil) under the same ones (oriental sector).

Towers (six are located, as minimum), bastions, doors and bunkers (of rectangular plant and covered by approach of layers inside the structure of the wall) complement an unequalled ensemble that keeps the remains in very bad state of conservation of what should be the biggest settling in the West of Minorca.

(More information in the web of Son Catlar: http://soncatlar.cjb.net      )

Perimeter: 864 m.

The different constructive styles to which we made reference seem to indicate the existence of a long period of construction and use, surely with a series of constructions and reconstructions, initiate probably towards the 10th century B.C. (Talayotic II) and continued through the centuries until, at least, the rise of the towers, that display a certain hellenistic flavour, although they also could be Roman (we cannot forget that in the precinct of the "taula" a stone was found with the word LACESE, of clear Latin influence).

Together with the rest of the structures of the town, in the small field that there is between this one and the highway that leads to the "Arenal de Son Saura", is located an "hypogeum of elongated plan" of the pretalayotic time.