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I used the Menorca Tour and Trail 1:40,000 map and found it perfectly adequate to find all the sites I wanted to see. This Talaiot is the tallest on all Menorca so I could see the tower from many different places as I approached. Parking is ample down the road but nearer the tower the road thins severely, but if you tuck into the side of the road there's just enough room for 1 or 2 cars. Dont be tempted to climb the wall even where there is pokey out stones stepping over the wall, go towards the house and theres a gate. The Talaiot is in a modern walled area with several deep rock pits for water storage, and remains of buildings at the towers feet and an access ramp winding round the tower, but it doesn't go all the way round and in through the doorway at the top, go round the other side it's much easier to get up. There is an ugly concrete thing on top with an arial of some kind poking out the top, something to do with the airport I think. Taken from..Archaeological Itinerary around Menorca "...Those boulders in the large Talayot of Torello...measure 2 metres in length by 1 in width and are 0.40 thick, representing an approximate weight of two thousand kilograms." Pedro Riudavets y Tudury History of the Island of Menorca (1891)

Posted by postman 19th May 2008ce

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