🏛️ Talayotic Menorca – C9 Tramuntana North-West
Prehistoric megalithic structures in a UNESCO World Heritage Site
📌 Fast Facts
- Location: North-west Tramuntana region, Menorca, Spain
- Period: Talayotic culture, c. 1400–123 BC
- UNESCO Status: Part of Talayotic Menorca World Heritage Site
- Primary structures: Talayots, taulas, navetas, and settlement remains
The C9 zone of Talayotic Menorca encompasses a concentrated archaeological landscape in the north-west Tramuntana region of the island. This area preserves multiple prehistoric megalithic structures built by the Talayotic culture, a Bronze and Iron Age society indigenous to the Balearic Islands that lasted from approximately 1400 BC until the Roman conquest in 123 BC. The site was inscribed as part of the Talayotic Menorca UNESCO World Heritage Site for its outstanding representation of early ...