{"id":588,"date":"2009-12-07T13:40:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T13:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2009-12-07T13:40:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T13:40:46","slug":"megalithic-structures-of-menorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/megalithic-structures-of-menorca\/","title":{"rendered":"Megalithic Structures of Menorca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/menorca.html\" target=\"_blank\">Menorca<\/a> is beyond a shadow of a doubt the most abundant in megalithic sites of all the Spanish Balearics, having many hundreds of stone structures dating from the Talaiotic period (2000BC &#8211; 1000BC) many of these ancient sites are still in a good state of repair and well worth the effort needed to see them. The majority of the finest megalithic sites are situated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/menorca-south.html\" target=\"_blank\">south<\/a> of the island below the route of the ME-1, Mahon to Ciutadella carraigeway, many are decently signposted, others are much trickier to find and require some exploration and a good map, if you are doing the full tour you will need a decent guide book and a detailed road map of the island. Some of the finest and best known sites on Menorca include Torralba d\u2019en Salort, for a great example of a <em>taula<\/em> (\u201cT\u201d shaped stone structure), Naveta d\u2019es Tudons for a superb example of a <em>naveta<\/em> (upturned boat type stone structure) and Son Mercer de Baix for the most ancient settlement on Menorca. To have the required freedom to tour these and many other sites you would be best advised to rent a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/menorca-car-hire.html\" target=\"_blank\">car hire<\/a> vehicle for at least a couple of days of your stay, this will give you the opportunity to tour the island without any constraints. While touring the historic sites you can also pop in and see a few of the more \u201cout of the way\u201d coves and beaches, or perhaps take a morning for a game of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/menorca-golf-son-parc.html\" target=\"_blank\">golf<\/a> at Son Parc in the north and then visit Monte Toro (Bull mountain), Menorca highest peak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Menorca is beyond a shadow of a doubt the most abundant in megalithic sites of all the Spanish Balearics, having many hundreds of stone structures dating from the Talaiotic period (2000BC &#8211; 1000BC) many of these ancient sites are still in a good state of repair and well worth the effort needed to see them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,6,18],"tags":[385,253,289,95,180,469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}