WALKING
ROUTES - THE DOLMENS OF ANTEQUERA
The travellers can sing 3 dolmens in Antequera.
these remains of megalithic construction are from the catolithic or
Copper Age and have survived to our day in a maginificent conserved
state. The oldest of the 3 dolmens is that of Menga, dating from 2500
BC.
The burial chamber is made up of seven large monoliths on each side,
covered at the head of the chamber, weighing about 179 tonnes. Next
to this dolmen is that Viera, from a little later -2000 BC-. Its corridor
is completely conserved, but only 4 of the 7 slabs originally making
up the roof are left.
Following the N-331 you arrive at the site of the dolmen of el Romeral,
which is dated from around 1800 BC. It is a tholos -type dolmen with
a corridor.
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