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In La Vanguardia Readers' Photos we have visited the Talayotic town of Trepucó, in Menorca, an island that has 1,586 archaeological sites in just over 700 km2.
Not all of them can be visited or easily accessible, but those that synthesize the island's prehistory are within the reach of all those people who want to get to know Talayotic Menorca.
The vestiges of Talayotic Menorca are already part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. It represents one of the richest and most unique archaeological landscapes on the planet, an impressive legacy of the Talayotic culture that has survived to this day.
Trepucó is one of the largest Talayotic towns in Menorca, with more than 4 hectares of area, and was originally walled.
Currently only a small part of the settlement is preserved: some sections of the wall with two square towers, two talayots, the taula enclosure and some perfectly visible remains of homes.
The settlement was destroyed during the Second Punic War and its sudden abandonment made it possible for remarkable domestic equipment to come to light at the time of the archaeological excavation, exhibited in the Museum of Menorca.
The largest talayot and the taula are located in the center of a star-shaped fortification, built in a dry stone wall during the 18th century by the Spanish troops who besieged the castle of San Felipe, then in British hands.
