Antequera Dolmens Site
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How it came to be
Three megalithic tombs stand on the edge of Antequera in Andalusia, southern Spain. The oldest, the Dolmen of Menga, was built of 32 megaliths in the Neolithic, around 3700 BC. It is 27.5 m long, 6 m wide and 3.5 m high, and its heaviest stone weighs about 180 tonnes.
The Dolmen of Viera dates from the Copper Age, with a passage of a little over 21 m leading to its burial chamber. Brothers Antonio and José Fuentes of Antequera found it in February 1903. The same brothers found El Romeral, a later Copper Age tomb roofed with a false cupola of overlapping stones.
All three were buried under earth mounds. Instead of facing the sunrise like most dolmens, Menga points to the Peña de los Enamorados, a mountain shaped like a human face, and El Romeral faces the El Torcal range. With these two landmarks the tombs were inscribed in 2016.
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