News welcomed today by the Ministry of Culture and Sport after receiving the report of the International Committee on Monuments and Sites (Icomos), an advisory body to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural World Heritage Convention (Unesco).
According to the source, Icomos has positively recommended the proposal as it demonstrates “Outstanding Universal Value”, a key concept for inclusion on this prestigious list, and meets necessary integrity and authenticity requirements.
Menorca Talayotica is a window into the island’s prehistoric cultures, its archaeological sites and evidence of the island’s occupation by prehistoric communities.
These sites show a great variety of prehistoric settlements and burial sites.
The Consell de Menorca presented itself to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for the first time in 2017. At that time, the file was not positively evaluated and had to be extended.
Then it was repeated in 2021, but the special military operation of Russia in Ukraine prevented the meeting in the city of Kazan from being held on its territory.
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) will be the scene of the Committee’s assessments from 10am to 10pm
next September.
The materials and structures of Talayotic Menorca range from the Bronze Age (1,600 BC) to the last Iron Age (123 BC), in which the development of a Cyclopean architecture of large blocks of stone and a spatial organization that suggests this can be discerned is, according to experts, the emergence of a hierarchical society.
Different astronomical alignments and visual connections between prehistoric structures indicate the existence of networks with possible cosmological meanings.
Taken together, these archaeological sites and associated landscapes offer a glimpse into the prehistoric island cultures of this western Mediterranean region.
The specialists point out that among the characteristic Cyclopean structures are the hypogea (artificial caves), the talayots (large, generally frustoconical structures) and the taulas (T-shaped constructions consisting of a large rectangular supporting stone slab and an inverted pyramidal capital ) belong abbreviated).
Likewise the taula enclosures (religious rooms, structures made of plants).
apsidic and concave facade), navetas (which have the shape of an inverted nave and in some cases rounded floors) and round and columned houses (roofs supported by columns).
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