The island of Minorca, the most northern in the Balearic ones, with a maximum extension of about 702 km², is, together with Egypt, Greece and Italy, one of the corners with bigger density of monuments and archaeological remains of the whole Mediterranean; and, however, it is less well-known, not only that this mentioned countries, that which would be, in a manner, logic, but that other many sites or monuments neither closely so spectacular.

Distributed by the eight municipal terms in that it is divided administratively, near 2000 monuments and sites, Arab, Paleochristian, Roman and, mainly, prehistoric, are distributed throughout the two geologic regions that give it form: to the north, an area that corresponds to the primary, secondary and quaternary eras, with forests, often whipped by the wind (the "tramontana"), practically uninhabited; to the south, a region of the tertiary era, furrowed by "ravines" that, from the centre of the island, go toward the southern coast to end in cutout creeks, small ports that, from the Prehistory, have motivated the occupation of the area, also more protected of the climatic inclemencies; to both ends, two wide natural ports, coveted by all the colonial powers of the history, from Carthage to Rome, from England to France, by the Arab and by the Catalan people or by Spain.

But, before they were the Balearic, the people who created a culture, the "talayotic", as much by Minorca as by Majorca extended, that participated in the invasion of Italy to the orders of Hannibal, that had fame of very dexterous with the sling and that so many monuments left us that it never has been possible to class them absolutely. And, in Minorca, these, the monuments, resist the passage of the centuries, and you find them amid the fields, on the border of the sea, in the walls of the cliffs, there where you go and there from where you come. They are countless. Magnificent. This is a small sample of the same ones.