Ancient fortress built between the XVI-XVII centuries, located in Santa Eulària des Riu, it has walls with an attached defense tower of masonry and circular plant. Located on the highest part of a hill, it offers the visitor a beautiful panoramic view.
It is located inside the Natural Reserve of Cala d'Hort, hanging on a cliff, in front of the islets of Es Vedrà and Es Vedranell. It was completed in 1756 and, although it was designed as an artillery tower, it never housed cannons, limiting itself to serve as a watchtower. Es savinar is the only tower that retains its original door at the top entrance, accessible via a ramp. The nickname Torre del Pirata was given to it by the writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in his novel 'Los muertos mandan' (The dead rule).
The cave is more than 100,000 years old and bones and fossils of rodent animals of extinct species have been found in it, whose skeletons are now in the Natural History Museum. The cave is located between 10 and 40 meters above sea level inside a cliff of Port de Sant Miquel de Balanzat, in the municipality of Sant Joan de Labritja, north of the island of Ibiza. On the access road, we first find a spectacular viewpoint from where you can see a panoramic view of Port de Sant Miquel, Pas de s'Illa, Murada island and the tower des Molar. Following a path carved into the rock you reach the entrance to the cave at an elevation of 14 meters above sea level. The cave is 100,000 years old and was formed by telluric faults. It has gone through glaciations and tropical heat and is now almost fossilized except in the deepest galleries where the dripping continues to form stalactites. As the waterfalls and water courses that flowed through the cave were fossilized, the speleologists who have been involved in the development of the cave, have recovered them artificially to reproduce what existed in the past. The cave, called Can Marça, was used by smugglers who lifted goods from the sea and introduced them through an opening that is 10 meters high. Today, you can still distinguish the red or black paint signs that marked the way out in case of escape or emergency.
Best part was the wind rushing through the tunnel cooling you off.
In the area near the viewpoint in the square, from which you can catch glimpses of Formentera, there is a replica of a statue depicting Guillem de Montgrí, which is located in the Gerona cathedral. From here, head towards the Santa Llúcia bulwark, whose layout evokes the prow of a ship. From here you can begin your descent into the Sa Carrossa area and once again reach the Weapons Courtyard. There you leave the walled city to enter the Puerta del Mar, where this tour began.
Interesting. But that’s it. Not much to see.
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.
Ibiza preserves a cave sanctuary erected in honor of Tanit, goddess of love and fertility to whom the Phoenicians professed great adoration. It is the Cova des Culleram, located in the municipality of Sant Joan de Labritja, in the area of Sant Vicent de Sa Cala in the northeast of the island. Considered one of the most important archaeological sites on the island, Sa Cova des Culleram was studied in 1907 and 600 terracotta figures (possibly votive offerings), a thousand heads of figurines and ceramic fragments were found there. The most remarkable are some flared female figures painted with various symbols and, some of them, with their faces covered by a thin layer of gold. They can be admired in the Museu des Puig des Molins. Sa Cova des Culleram was used from the end of the 5th century to the 2nd century B.C. In 1929 a bronze plaque was found citing the names of Astraté and Tania, the Punic goddess of Ibiza par excellence. It has its viewpoint two hundred meters above sea level, which offers a spectacular panoramic view with the island of Tagomago in the background and can be visited inside.
Known in the past for their agricultural productivity, they were channeled by the Arabs, who established an irrigation system unique in the world at the time based on capillary irrigation. They constitute the second most important wetlands in Eivissa and contain fresh and semi-salty waters that provide a great diversity of fauna and flora. The canals formed small rectangular plots of land called feixes. These channels were connected, every few meters, with other subway channels called fibles through which water circulated. The upper part of the fibles was made of a material that allowed the water to pass through (usually pine branches). In this way, with the use of floodgates, the water level in the channels and, therefore, in the feixa, could be regulated. The entrance to each feixa or plot was made through a very characteristic portal, unique in the world, called portal de feixa, which stands out for its beauty and uniqueness: a huge white lintel with a wooden door. Ses Feixes is divided into three parts: two of them cultivated, called Prat de Vila and Prat de Ses Monjes; and a strip of wetland that joins them, called es Prat.
At this point you will see the castle, the building that tops Puig de Vila hill. Before the Renaissance wall was built, it was separate from the Almudaina castle, but once the wall was built they were conjoined. In 1972, the Ministry of Defence donated the castle to the Town Hall, and since then excavations have been conducted that have provided proof of the different periods in Ibiza’s history, from its Phoenician founding until the Catalan period. They have also revealed several refurbishments and interventions that have been conducted. The most noteworthy aspects of the castle are the Torre del Homenaje (Homage Tower) and the Casa del Gobernador (Governor’s house). Following the wall, Universitat street leads you to the Plaza de la Catedral (Cathedral Square).
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