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Overview
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The talayot known as Talaiot de Son Miralles lies in Calvià, Spain. In open records it appears as Wikidata item Q98096580, mapped at 39.5053° N, 2.4854° E.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
The full article
About Talaiot de Son Miralles
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A talayot, or talaiot, is a Bronze Age megalith found on the islands of Menorca and Mallorca, part of the Talaiotic culture. Talayots date from the late second millennium and the early first millennium BCE. There are at least 274 of them, in or near Talaiotic settlements and the chamber tombs called navetas. They generally take the form of circular or square buildings, and they may have been used as dwellings or meeting places. Some are thought to have had a defensive purpose; on Menorca, others may have served as lookout or signalling towers, since they form a network. The full article, “Talayots of Mallorca and Menorca”, follows below under About this kind of monument.
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Typological estimate, not a date for this site: monuments of this kind in this region are normally dated 1600 BCE to 123 BCE. The range comes from what is known about talayot monuments in Spain; nothing measured on this site itself is on record, so it may be younger or older than the range suggests.
The range rests on this regional background (source: the Wikipedia article “Talaiot”): The Talaiotic chronology spans from the emergence of cyclopean constructions around 1600 BCE to the Romanization in 123 BCE.
Landscape and neighbours
The catalogue lists 0 other sites within 1 km, 1 within 5 km and 3 within 10 km; 3 of them are also classed as talayot. In Calvià, Spain, 4 of the 4 catalogued sites are classed as talayot.
The nearest neighbours in the catalogue are Talaiot de Son Massot / Sa Barraca de l'Amo (3.7 km east, talayot); Turó fortificat de Torà / Puig des Moros de Ponent (5.5 km north, talayot); Talaiot de Peguera / Puig des Collet des Moro (5.7 km north-west, talayot); Talaiot de s'Alqueria - puig des Castellot (10.4 km north, talayot). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
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The open records used here carry no heritage designation for the site, which says nothing either way about its legal status. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q98096580), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Sites of this kind often lie on farmland or other private ground, so check local access rules before visiting and leave the monument as you found it.
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This page was built automatically from Wikidata (CC0) and the regional article “Talayots of Mallorca and Menorca”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), plus distances and counts computed from the catalogue coordinates. It contains no AI-written text.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Talayots of Mallorca and Menorca
A talayot, or talaiot, is a Bronze Age megalith found on the islands of Menorca and Mallorca, part of the Talaiotic culture. Talayots date from the late second millennium and the early first millennium BCE. There are at least 274 of them, in or near Talaiotic settlements and the chamber tombs called navetas. They generally take the form of circular or square buildings, and they may have been used as dwellings or meeting places. Some are thought to have had a defensive purpose; on Menorca, others may have served as lookout or signalling towers, since they form a network.
The Talaiotic culture was the society of the Gymnesian Islands, the eastern Balearics. It evolved at the end of the second millennium BCE from the Pre-Talaiotic culture, and spans a very wide time frame; there is no agreement among researchers on its phases, which differ between Mallorca and Menorca.
At Torre d'en Galmés on Menorca the settlement developed from the start of the Talaiotic era, about 1400 BCE, and expanded until the end of the Roman occupation, and was one of the biggest towns in the Balearic Islands. It stood on a hill with views over the southern coast and used a sophisticated water collection system with cisterns.
Taulas are T-shaped stone monuments found on Menorca: a vertical pillar with a horizontal stone lying on it, up to 5 metres high, usually enclosed by a U-shaped wall. They were built by the Talaiotic culture between about 500 and 300 BCE, after the talayots, and are frequently found near them. Their meaning is unknown, but they probably had religious or astronomical purposes. Most face south.
When visiting, look at the stonework of the tower and the layout of the settlement around it.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Talayot, Wikipedia: Talaiotic culture, Wikipedia: Torre d'en Galmés, Wikipedia: Taula · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photographs
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 1600–123 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for talayots in Spain; this site has not been dated itself. The Talaiotic chronology spans from the emergence of cyclopean constructions around 1600 BCE to the Romanization in 123 BCE.Source for this date
Where it stands
Spain
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 39°30′19″ N, 2°29′08″ EFor a GPS or map app: 39.50528, 2.48544
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- TalayotTalaiot de Son Massot / Sa Barraca de l'Amo1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTuró fortificat de Torà / Puig des Moros de Ponent1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de Peguera / Puig des Collet des Moro1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de s'Alqueria - puig des Castellot1600–123 BCE
Talaiot del Serral de les Abelles1600–123 BCE
La Casa del Gegant de Son Puig1600–123 BCE- TalayotTalaiot de Son Malferit / Es Caragol1600–123 BCE
- TalayotPuig des Gat / Sarrià1600–123 BCE
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Sources
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Talaiot de Son Massot / Sa Barraca de l'Amo3.7 km E
- Turó fortificat de Torà / Puig des Moros de Ponent5.5 km N
- Talaiot de Peguera / Puig des Collet des Moro5.7 km NW
- Talaiot de s'Alqueria - puig des Castellot10 km N
- Talaiot del Serral de les Abelles13 km N
- La Casa del Gegant de Son Puig14 km N
- Talaiot de Son Malferit / Es Caragol17 km NE
- Puig des Gat / Sarrià18 km NE
- Talaiot de Sarrià / ses Clavegueres18 km NE
- Talaiot des Caragol / Talaiot des Puig de n'Auba / Sarrià19 km NE
Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
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