The extraordinary Council of Ministers held yesterday, July 26, approved the expenditure of an extraordinary aid of one million euros to the Consell Insular de Menorca (CIM) for financing two archaeological interventions in Talayotic Menorca sites. This is one of the actions included in Royal Decree 630/2022, published by today's BOE, which regulates the direct granting of subsidies to various institutions for the development of cultural projects.
The Vice President and Conseller of Cultural Affairs of the CIM, Miquel Àngel Maria, has informed that this grant will go entirely to excavation, restoration and consolidation projects in two of the most important publicly owned sites on the island: Torre d'en Galmés and Trepucó.
Projects in Trepucó and Torre d'en Galmés
In Torre d'en Galmés, the project proposes the excavation of the central talayot ??of the site and the structures attached to it. Subsequently, restoration and consolidation works will be carried out on the excavated structures. The aim is to include them in the guided tour of the site. The budget for this project is
€450,000.
As for Trepucó, the project plans the intervention of the western sector of the site, the closest to the Bintaufa sports zone, where there is a talayot, a bastion of the wall and a domestic area. This space was the object of an archaeological intervention in the eighties of the past century by the Museu de Menorca. Now the project plans to complete the excavation, restore and consolidate the habitat structures and incorporate the area into the site’s visiting circuit. This project has a budget of
€550,000.
The subsidy approved by the Council of Ministers derives from an agreement between the senator of the Balearic Islands, Vicenç Vidal, and the Ministry of Finance, signed on December 20, 2021, during the last phase of
negotiation of the National Budget for 2022 in the Spanish Senate. Senator Vidal presented a series of amendments to the State Government for the specific financing of several projects in the Balearic Islands, which were accepted.
Miquel Àngel Maria thanked Vidal for his intervention as well as the positive response from the State Government, which adds significant financial aid to the constant support and collaboration of the Ministry of Culture to the Talayotic Menorca candidacy.
The full information published in the
Official Gazette of Spain (BOE) can be consulted here.