Talaiot de Son Noguera
DatedEst. 1600–123 BCE
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El Talaiot de Son Noguera és un talaiot circular de gran bellesa situat just al costat de les cases de la possessió de Son Noguera, al municipi de Llucmajor, Mallorca.
És obra de la cultura talaiòtica i es troba actualment aïllat. El seu diàmetre exterior és de 13,9-14,2 m i l'altura màxima 5,6 m. El diàmetre de la cambra és de 6,7 m. El portal d'accés té un metre d'ample i una alçada d'1,20 m que s'eixamplen a mesura que s'entra dins la cambra assolint 1,2 m d'amplada i 1,8 m d'alçada a l'interior. No té columna central, si bé és probable que hagi desaparegut, igual que les lloses que el cobrien. Es caracteritza per l'existència d'una petita finestra a la paret oposada a la d'entrada que podria ser un antic accés a una cambra superior.
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The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
The full article
Talaiot de Son Noguera: the whole story
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The Talaiot de Son Noguera is a circular talayot beside the houses of the Son Noguera estate, in the municipality of Llucmajor, Mallorca, Spain. It belongs to the Talaiotic culture and now stands isolated.
The structure has an exterior diameter of 13,9-14,2 m and a maximum height of 5,6 m. Its chamber is 6,7 m across. The entrance portal is one metre wide and 1,20 m high, widening inside to 1,2 m wide and 1,8 m high.
No central column survives, although one may once have been present. The slabs that covered the chamber have also disappeared. A small window in the wall opposite the entrance may have provided access to an upper chamber.
The Talaiot de Son Noguera is dated typologically to 1600 BCE to 123 BCE. Talayots are Bronze Age megaliths found on Menorca and Mallorca, and such monuments generally form circular or square buildings associated with Talaiotic settlements and nearby navetas. Depending on the site, they may have served as dwellings, meeting places, defensive structures, lookout points, or signalling towers.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Catalan article "Talaiot de Son Noguera", shown in the original language.
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- Wikipedia (Catalan): Talaiot de Son NogueraCC BY-SA 4.0
Talaiot de Son Noguera is a talayot in Llucmajor, Spain. Wikidata describes it as: cultural property in Llucmajor, Spain. A typological estimate: 1600 BCE to 123 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Catalan article "Talaiot de Son Noguera", shown in the original language.
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Talaiot de Son Noguera”, translated from Catalan. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
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
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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
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- Coordinates
- 39°28′58″ N, 2°51′34″ EFor a GPS or map app: 39.48278, 2.85944
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Talaiot de Son Taixaquet d'en Ramonell1600–123 BCE- TalayotTalaiot de Son Taixaquet des Llobets1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de Can Mòger1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de Gomereta - Darrera ses Cases1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de sa Talaia1600–123 BCE
Talaiot de Capocorb d'en Jaquetó1600–123 BCE
Talaiot de Son Coll Nou1600–123 BCE
Talaiot dels Baulenes1600–123 BCE
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- 01Wikidata Q11950810wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Talaiot de Son Taixaquet d'en Ramonell2.6 km S
- Talaiot de Son Taixaquet des Llobets3.2 km S
- Talaiot de Can Mòger6.6 km S
- Talaiot de Gomereta - Darrera ses Cases8.3 km S
- Talaiot de sa Talaia8.3 km SE
- Talaiot de Capocorb d'en Jaquetó9.6 km S
- Talaiot de Son Coll Nou10 km NE
- Talaiot dels Baulenes11 km E
- Talaiot de Can Felet - es Figueral12 km N
- Es Molí / Naveta des Rafal de Sant Jordi12 km NW
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