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Archaeology

Ruinas en Ibiza Punics, Romans, Byzantines and Muslims all settled on the island.

Ruinas en Ibiza Punic age

Sites in Puig des Molins, Sa Caleta, Punta des Jondal, Punta d’en Joan Tur Esquerrer, Illa Grossa, Talaia de Jesús, Puig de ses Torretes.

Sanctuaries. The most representative is at Cova des Cuilleram, where hundreds of items and objects representing the Goddess Tanit were found.

Beside the bay of Eivissa is the sanctuary of S’Illa Plana, highly significant in its time, where remains of different figures were found to worship fertility.

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7th-6th Centuries B.C. The Puig des Molins Necropolis was used until Roman times, and during this period, several burial systems were used: incineration, hypogea, sarcophagi and pits. There are approximately 3000 hypogea.

Santa Eulalia del Rio

3rd-2nd Centuries B.C. Cap des Llibrell is a building with a rectangular floor with a cistern in the centre.


Roman period

Santa Eulalia del Rio

1st Century B.C. S’argamassa, with remains of an area containing an aqueduct and buildings, which may have been related to industrial activities and the sea.

4th Century B.C – 7th Century A.C. Can Fita rural settlement. The importance of this site stems from the long chronological period that it covers. These people worked in oil production. Oil press counterweights, kegs and wall paintings have been found.

Sant Josep de sa Talaia

0-200 A.C. Ses Païses de Cala D’hort, also known as Can Sorà, is a Punic-Roman dwelling, in which it appears that there was a oil press, kitchens and warehouses.

0-200 A.C. Puig des Collets settlement, with remains of a building, oil press and a cistern.


Phoenician period

San Jose

7th-6th Centuries B.C. Sa Caleta Phoenician village, formed of houses and warehouses separated by irregular streets. Situated in a defense zone with easy access from the sea.


Muslim period

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10th - 16th Centuries. Triple Arab wall in Eivissa. Documents from the 12th and 13th Centuries demonstrate the existence of a triple walled enclosure, continuing the gradual line of the Arab fortifications. It is believed that the population within the enclosure could have been 2,500.

San Antonio

6th-13th Centuries, D.C. Ses Torres d’en Lluc. Sant Mateu d’Aubarca. Remains of a section of a wall with two towers. It is difficult to know who may have built this major refuge or why it was built.


Byzantine period

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5th-6th Centuries. The Clot de Baix and s’Hort des Llimoners, now form part of the city centre. A series of baths and burial remains were found.


Domestic architecture

Santa Eulalia del Rio

2100-1936 B.C. Puig de ses Torretes site is a megalithic settlement with remains of family houses.


Defence architecture

San Jose

1300-1100 B.C. Punta des Jondal site, with poorly preserved remains of a possible wall section which is over three hundred metres high

1300-1000 B.C. Puig Redó site, a small fortified enclosure, the upper part of which was formed of three wall lines with great blocks of stone.


Burial architecture

San Jose

1000-650 B.C. Can Sergent site

 
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