The necropolis of Puig des Molins

Monuments | Ibiza

The best preserved necropolis in the Mediterranean, home of the goddess Tanit. It is located about 500 meters west of Puig de Vila, in the same place where the city has been located since its foundation by the Phoenicians at the end of the 7th century BC. As usual, in Phoenician cities the space of the living and the dead were close, although separated by a geographical feature. Its name derives from the windmills that dominated its summit since at least the fifteenth century, now in disuse, and of which today only a few of them remain. In one of these mills lived for a few days the poet Rafael Alberti and his wife Mª Teresa León during their stay on the island, in July 1936, just when the Spanish Civil War broke out.