News and events

Five million coupons will be distributed throughout Spain. The coupon was presented this Thursday, December 27, in the site of Trepucó in the presence of Joan Pons, Menorca's conseller for Cultural Affairs, Education, Youth and Sports, and Higinio Sanchís, Director of the ONCE Agency in Menorca.

Margaret Murray was the first archaeologist to study the remains of the Talayotic period in Menorca. This year these triptychs will be dedicated to important figures that have led to the declaration of World Heritage.

This year 2024 is dedicated to Talayotic Menorca and its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List. From tomorrow, December 22, anyone interested can pick it up free of charge at the two offices in Maó and Ciutadella, as well as at the town halls on the island.

The Sant Agustí Vell Archaeological Project has begun a new five-year project that has been presented today, December 20, in the same Talayotic settlement of Sant Agustí. The co-directors of the project have presented the progress of this first campaign focused on completing the excavation of the room attached to the South Building of the Talaiot of Ses Bigues de Mata. 

This December we interviewed the historian and museologist Antoni Nicolau, drafter of the Management Plan for the Assets of Talayotic Menorca, which establishes the mechanisms to guarantee the conservation of its exceptional universal value.

The Talayotic Menorca Agency and Nurarq are organising an activity to observe the solar hierophany of So na Caçana during the midday of the winter solstice on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of December. Tickets to attend the archaeoastronomical event will be allocated in a raffle. 
Photo: Antoni Cladera.

 

The association Women for Dialogue and Education and its project "Women in the World Heritage of Spain" dedicate a space to the role of women in Talayotic Menorca this November. Its president, Giovana G. Calderón, has interviewed Antoni Ferrer, director of the Talayotic Menorca Agency, on the programme "Marca España" on Radio Exterior de España.

Antoni Ferrer, director of the Talayotic Menorca Agency, took part in the first international congress "Sardinia, the Island of the Nuraga", and the head of the Historical Heritage Service of the Consell Insular de Menorca, Joana Gual, in the XVII Meeting of World Heritage Managers.

This November we interviewed Montserrat Anglada, an archaeologist and technician at the Museu de Menorca. Specialised in historical heritage conservation, she is also a member of the Governing Council of the Talayotic Menorca Agency. Since 2001 she has worked on various archaeological projects in Menorca, Mallorca and Catalonia.

During the first three weeks of October, a new archaeological campaign was carried out at the navetas settlement of Es Coll de cala Morell, focusing on the excavation of the so-called Alberca Sur (South Tank). This artificial depression is part of a unique hydraulic structure in Balearic prehistory, formed by a set of two tanks for collecting rainwater located in the centre of the promontory.

The celebration of Talayotic Menorca as a World Heritage Site has brought together half a thousand people in the Talayotic settlement of Son Catlar (Ciutadella), in a night full of emotion and Menorcan talent. The night ended with a performance by the Menorcan baritone Simón Orfila and the soprano Rosalía Cid, accompanied on piano by Alejandro Calafat.

"Entre el cel i la mar" is the title of the show produced by the Talayotic Menorca Agency and the company iluminaM that will take place on October 6 in Trepucó, Maó. This mapping of light and music is part of the actions to celebrate the recent inscription of Talayotic Menorca on the UNESCO World Heritage List.