Trepucó and Camí Verd

Trepucó and Camí Verd

The prehistoric Settlement at Trepucó, one of the largest monuments on Menorca, was excavated by Dr. Margaret Murray and a team from Cambridge University in 1.931. They were gentilly allocated in this house while the excavation by the owner at that time, Mr. Waldemar Fenn.

Camí Verd is a pleasant country lane on the left side of the road to Mahón, just opposite to Cala Figuera, if you walk southbound -1.3 Km.- it will bring you to the Trepucó, signposted.

Before you arrive there, and all along the "Camí Verd" -which means "green lane"-, you will find caves, some of them really big. They were created as excavations of limestone blocks, in fact they are all quarries. The biggest one called "Robedones", is used today for a group of people interested in old boats conservation.

Trepucó is a talayotic township of about 5.000 square meters, originally inclose by defence walls. However at the present day only small fragments of wall are preserved and two square towers on the west wall. Among the buildings, is worth nothing a large talayot (tower), and the enclosure of the Taula (Sanctuary), found in the center of a "star", built in dry stione wall style in the XVIII Cent. Using stones from the nearby talayots.

To the west, we can see another smaller talayot, and some rooms, prehistoric houses, perfectly visible.

All this area is Chronolocically dated from the pre-talayotic era (before 1.400 B.C.)

You can either return through Cami Verd, or for another country road and the residential area of Son Vilar later.