A small room with a taula is the main attraction of this settlement of the time talayotic where you can also see the remains of other areas such as housing reused until Roman times. Archeology experts predict that na So cacana, located in the municipality of Alaior, could be the religious center of the Levant island for what is considered a place of great archaeological interest.
Palau Saura 1693-1712, Joan Amorós For most of the seventeenth century the master builders who built the finest Menorcan buildings came from Mallorca. The members of the Amorós family had a key and hegemonic influence on the island, which reached more than 40 years, between 1670 and 1710, a period of great construction activity, especially in Ciutadella. The Amoros developed their own style centered on the ornaments of pillars, domes, cornices, arches, etc., based on braids that personalized their works. One of the few buildings built by Joan Amorós was the Saura Palace on Calle del Santíssim on Calle dels Dolors. As in other stately houses of Ciutadella and in some of Maó, the plant is organized around the entrance space and the stairway that become a semipublic route that leads to the great noble room on the first floor. The octagonal vault that crowns the staircase box is one of the most interesting architectural elements of the palaces of Ciutadella. In the main façade the composition of the small windows of the second floor, with the cornice very flown and ornamented, that extend to the lateral facade and manage to give a great unity to the set. The Palace Saura was acquired by the City Council of Ciutadella in the last years of the millennium with clearly cultural aims. The interest of the building, except its magnificent façade, is centered in the dependencies of its ground floor, conserved the majority in its original form, and in the garden. Ownership: municipal
House built in 1761 for the Mercadal family in the oldest part of the city of Maó, known as Pont des Castell, an elevated area where the old medieval fortified town was located. This building was new and was built on the site that remained after the demolition of the old family properties of the Mercadal in the early eighteenth century, as political retaliation for having supported the supporters of Archduke Charles during the War of the Spanish Succession.
In the late 18th century the Spanish government decided to build a large lazaretto in the port of Maó. The site chosen was a peninsula near La Mola, opposite the town of Es Castell. The building on went on for several years, and in the end only half the project was actually executed. Even so, the Lazaretto of Maó is one of the largest quarantine installations still preserved in Europe. It became operational in 1817, and for a century served hundreds of boats which came from other ports and may have brought infected people or merchandise which had to go into quarantine. The current lazaretto replaced another previous one located on a nearby islet, Isla Plana, which no longer exists. The Lazaretto peninsula became an island too, when the so-called Alfonso XIII canal was dug out in 1900, to guarantee the sea traffic from the fortress of La Mola during storms. The most striking construction is the double wall that surrounds the lazaretto itself, with its watchtowers, different blocks and warehouses, the isolated areas where the diseased were concentrated, the small circular chapel dedicated to Saint Sebastian and the cemetery. Today ‘El Llatzeret’ is a residence managed by the Ministry of Health. To reach the island you have to take the pleasure boat that leaves from Calasfonts, in Es Castell, or by means of one of the residence’s own boats, which has to be requested in advance. The building has a medicine museum containing one of the first cardiographs ever to exist and different buildings with curious objects inside them, such as a replica of the boat used by Queen Isabell II when she went to Menorca to inaugurate the fortress of La Mola.
Along with the palace Torresaura the urban form of greater monumentality of Ciutadella de Menorca and its union with the parade, the Born , determines a unique scenery, great. Dating from the late seventeenth century. Its facade, which is divided into three types delimited Ionic pilasters, has an Italianate air. Notable oval balconies and the row of small windows top. Inside retain interesting mural paintings of the nineteenth century. Inside are collections of time. A family owned, current title holders Torresaura County, have enabled downstairs spaces for commercial uses, respecting the building, while the main floor is open to the public as a museum.
The courtyard of Sa Lluna located in the heart of Alaior was a former Franciscan cloister initially built on the outskirts of the city and ended in the late seventeenth century. In 1853, after having been occupied for nine years by a military detachment step has enabled the interiors of the convent for housing.
XIV century. The only visible vestige of the old medieval city walls. It was deeply restored after the looting that the pirate Barbarossa inflicted on the city of Maó in 1535.
The Mir House is a modernist-inspired house located Plaça Espanya of Mao, and was designed by the city architect Francesc Femenías. This is a privileged if what is sought is to admire the set of one of the largest natural harbors in the Mediterranean. Ranked highest Plaça d'Espanya.
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