Section 01
Building with what is underfoot
Talayotic walls, dry-stone terraces, and the sanctuary.
- 01A Bronze Age settlement inside the town's walking distanceSes Païsses is a talayotic settlement with a cyclopean wall and a central tower, and it sits a short walk from a working town rather than in isolation.
- 02A sanctuary on ground that was always fortifiedThe walled enclosure above Artà has been defensive ground since long before the sanctuary, which is why the approach is a stair rather than a road.
- 03Terraces Held Up by Walls Nobody SignedMallorca's dry-stone terracing is a technique with a UNESCO listing and a maintenance problem — the walls need hands that are no longer there.
Drawn
How the wall works: multi-tonne blocks laid without mortar, the gaps packed with smaller stone, and a single lintel spanning two uprights.
Elsewhere