Megaliths of Andalusia
Megaliths of Andalusia
The Megaliths prepared to be visited in Andalusia
Malaga, Seville, Huelva and Granada are the communities that currently offer routes that can be visited and that are prepared for tourism.
However, visits to these sites must be prepared in advance because they receive a certain number of visitors at certain times and days. Below I will leave the links.
Anyway, the best prepared for a tourist visit are those of Malaga and Granada.
one Malaga Province
01 Scallop dolmen
Located in Antequera Malaga, very easy access, very close to the city, entering through the industrial square, on the road to Malaga. It has parking.
The camera cover is a false dome.
02Dolmen the Romeral
It is located 1 kilometer from the dolmens of the Cueva de la Menga and Vieira, and the guide who showed those will accompany you to see this one.
As a peculiarity it should be noted that the camera in turn gives access to another small camera through a hole in the stone.
03Menga's Dolmen
It is located in the same town of Antequera, and is one of the main tourist attractions of the town, so its location does not pose any difficulty. It is seen during visiting hours accompanied by a guardian.
It is the largest dolmen of the entire megalithic culture. The corridor points to a hill called "Peña de los enamorados" which, if viewed from the road to the Sierra del Torcal, resembles the profile of a human face. A few meters from this dolmen is the Cueva de la Vieira.
2Granada Province
01Peña de los Gitanos Megalithic Ensemble
Dolmens of Montefrio 1-6 declared of Cultural Interest by UNESCO in 1996.
Easy access and with good conservation.
40 km from Monterfrio NO from Granada in the direction of Illorra, 4 kilometers to the left a sign announces the "megalithic camp". You have to climb 1 km along the dirt road to reach there is a ceiling and the path on the right goes through the same dolmen, after about 50 meters.
Corominas gives denominations dolmens; 3,10,13,14,17, 20.
Lower terraces that surround 6 kms. long, scattered there are graves that are part of 3 necropolis: Castellón, Camarilla, and Rodeo.
The dolmens of 8 meters. They have a trapezoidal chamber in the corridor and without the burial mounds. Se can see on the carved projections of the slabs, deer engravings and other representations.There are caves that apparently served as a shelter such as Cueva Alta and Las Tontas, which contains traces of cave paintings.
02Gorafe Megalithic Park
Arriving by road GR 6100 to Granada, you will find the Gorafe Megalithic Park, 4 kms SW from the town of Gorafe. The town has a Hotel Cuevas del Pataseca and the small Hotel Rosalia.
This park is one of the most importantof Europe. It is located between Baza and Guadix. The park has a Gorafe Megalithic Interpretation Center (CIM) In the Gor river valley there are up to ten groups of megalithic monuments.
In the Llano de Olivares Group, it has 23 distributed over four kilometers on the right edge of the valley, starting from the town of Gorafe. There are still 12 dolmens that have been incorporated, along with 240 (recently located) in Route 3 of the Megalithic Park. Most of them are linked to the town of Las Hoyas del Conquín, whose origin dates back to the Final Neolithic and is divided between the municipal terms of Gorafe and Guadix.
Group of dolmens of Baños de Alicún.
Majadillas dolmens group is where they concentrate of 22 have recovered 14 of these burials.
03Megalithic group of the Bermejales Swamp
This necropolis has seven cores with a group of twenty monuments, of which half are preserved. These are on hills that are arranged on the sides of the river, with an extension of 5 kms. long x 1 wide.
The groups are: the Cortijo del Cura, the Cortijo de Bartolo, Cortijo de Liñán, Cortijo de los Vínculos, Cortijo de la Navilla. With very varied shapes, although cysts and chambers without a rectangular corridor predominate.
The megaliths of the Bermejales Swamp are dated between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, built in stones of different types nearby. The low height of the burial mounds has led to their almost total disappearance, although there are indications of their existence.
It was displaced from its original location and rebuilt stone by stone where it is now located to prevent it from being buried under the waters of the reservoir.
2Cádiz Province
01Alberite dolmen
This dolmen is said to have been one of the few on the peninsula excavated with modern scientific criteria. Its dating is from 5000 a. C. two thousand years earlier than previously thought.
The elements of the grave goods of the dolmen and more evidence show us the relationship with European trade during the Neolithic era, with an Atlantic origin, not Mediterranean as it was believed. That is surprising since it evidences evolution since those times of exchange not only commercial but cultural.
"The first writings of the Iberian Peninsula have been dated around the seventh century BC. But mysterious inscriptions on many older pieces of the Museum of Huelva have caused a real earthquake in current research.
Manuel Pimentel meets Ana María Vázquez Hoys, a researcher willing to revolutionize the current landscape about the origin of writing in Spain. " http://dolmentierraviva.blogspot.com/2010/03/cadiz-dolmen-de-alberite-villamartin.html
02Dolmen "THE GIANT". The gastor
Before reaching the town of "El Gastor" there is a fountain on the right with a
"street sale is prohibited" sign. After passing the sign, you reach a track on the right
by the pine forest on the hillside. The road forks and follows the one on the right bythe slope up to about 100 meters high with another road on the right that indicatesDolmen del Charcón. From there on foot you walk at this point, 650 m. of altitude,following the trail of the dolmen. You climb up to just over 1 km, leaving the pine forest and you arrive, after passingsome gates, to a flat area, where there is a fountain-watering hole on the left, next to some riverside trees. It is an altitude of 800 m.
Dimensions:8.5 m long and 1.55 m wide camera
UTM coordinates: 292.950 - W 4.080.305 - N Spindle: 30
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Notes:Ceramic bowls, arrowheads and flint knives were found inside,belonging to the Chalcolithic or Copper Age period, about 3000 years BC
03Dolmen the Juncal
In a drop in the water level of the Hurones reservoir belonging to the Andalusian Atlantic basin, in Cádiz, a megalithic structure discovered by members of the Ubrique Tamale collective stood out. He was known as "Tomb of the Giant of Juncar". It was dated at the end of IV a. C.
This dolmen is oriented North-South with 9.5 m long, and 86 cm. wide with 1.8 m at the end of the camera. The materials are limestone and sandstone orthostats with a lintel cover. The human bones apparently found correspond to 5 or 6 individuals.
It belongs to a necropolis of at least 3 galleries.
one Seville Province
01 Dolmen of La Dehesa
Badly preserved and not very affordable.
Located in Almaden de la Plata, by the National de Sevilla to Mérida, when arriving at Santa Olalla we take to the right direction to Almadén, but by the road that passes through Real de la Plata, some kilometers more but better than the one that goes directly to Almadén, in terrible condition. After 24 kilometers, and 1 before entering Almadén, at the height of the bridge we take to the left the cut road that we will leave in 500 meters, taking to the right the dirt road that announces the Dehesa de San Bartolomé. After another 500 meters, when the stone wall on the left ends, we open to the right the gate that closes a path just drawn on the grass, and in about 200 meters we see two gates on both sides of the path, we take the one of the right, and we continue about 100 meters, well on foot, because the dolmen mound is perfectly distinguished in the middle of the field, about 200 meters to the left.
Near this place there are two dolmenic burial mounds already without stones (Catalañazar and Gabino).
02Los Parrones Dolmen
At kilometer 55.5 of the national road from Seville to Mérida, we see on the right the entrance gate to the Los Parrones estate, whose house is 500 meters away. The dolmen is another 500 meters north of the house, in the highest part of the hill, cross country.
At 100 meters before reaching the dolmen we pass through two small swollen stones, possible rest of another dolmen. In a dolmenic catalog of the province of Seville of the Delegation of Culture of Seville, other hardly known dolmens are mentioned in this term: Los Cojugones, La Lapa ...
03Marquis ranch dolmen
At kilometer 54 of the National de Sevilla to Mérida, we take the road to La Alcornocosa on the right. After about 500 meters we see an abandoned booth that looks like an old train station, and next to it and to the right, the gate that closes the dirt road that enters the Rancho del Marqués. Following it a few meters we see on the left a cabin next to which the stones of the dolmen are distinguished, which I could not reach because I could not get out of the car, since the bulls were lying next to it.
04Dolmen of the Shepherd
From Seville we take the road to Camas and Albadia. At 10 kilometers we see on the right the detour to Valencina. We take it and then, less than 1 kilometer and past the gas station, a few meters behind the dirt road that leads to the dolmen is born, perfectly signposted. To enter it and the one in Matarrubilla you have to arrange a visit to the House of Culture of Valencina, where there is a small museum of the dolmens in the area, about 12, covered all except for these 2 and Ontiveros, to Waiting for funds for excavations.
From the entrance of the dolmen you can see 500 meters to the south and on the other side of the road, the estate of Our Lady of the Kings, under whose courtyard is the dolmen of Ontiveros.