Beautiful countryside and historical remains together.

One of the most beautiful places in the Balearic Islands is also an interesting museum covering a total of 19 hectares in Menorca. This is the so-called Ecomuseo de Cap de Cavalleria, a silent place where each stone appears to evoke the remote past.

The Ecomuseo de Cap de Cavalleria is located in the area around Fornells and is a place of outstanding beauty between hills and still waters. It is run by the association Gestión del Patrimonio Mediterráneo (Administration of Mediterranean Heritage), formed almost completely by archaeologists and geologists.

The museum has two areas, one set up in the Lloc de Santa Teresa, a traditional Minorcan rural house, painted white and with a façade which has three arches. There is a didactic display here with full information about the nature of the area as well as the most important sites discovered up to now.

The rest is an open-air museum, a spectacular combination of unique countryside, traditions and traces of other civilisations. Converging here in these 19 hectares are an interest for botany, fauna, seafaring customs, agricultural and livestock farming, and the exploitation of the rock substrata... all added to the archaeological activity.

Sanitja, a 1st Century BC Roman site
A walk around this place provides the opportunity, among other things, to see the Roman site of Sanitja, which the experts date from the 1st Century BC and is the only one remaining from that period; a Roman town; the 18th Century Muslim mosque; an English tower dating from 1800; a 19th Century limestone kiln; or several calcareous rock quarries.

The main path is a narrow stretch of land with some tiny and charming jetties where small boats bob up and down in the calm waters. Here the fishermen continue to keep their old customs when working, which constitute an important ethnological element for the island.

At the end is the lighthouse, a magnificent building built in 1857 and which is privileged to be the oldest one remaining on Minorca. The place is fantastic and seems to form part of another world.

Length: 2´45 min.

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