<< Our Photo Pages >> Cueva de Menga - Chambered Cairn in Spain in Andalucía
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cueva de MengaCountry: Spain Region: Andalucía Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Antequera
Latitude: 37.024132N Longitude: 4.548342W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Runemage DrewParsons rrmoser 43559959 would like to visit
Catrinm visited on 22nd Feb 2020 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Impressively huge dolmen clearly facing the face-like mountain . Carvings on front left hand side slab.
The info on this on MP main page is out of date You can enter here for free now (2020) on an organised path and visitor centre with film and free posters !
Marcia visited on 1st Jan 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5
XIII visited on 24th Oct 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4
aangelo visited on 9th Sep 2010 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 The access is free for all members of European Community.
There is a building where you can see an interesting video that explains the construction techniques and buy books and other gadgets.
Now the cave is always lighted (not only after request) but there is no guide (but if you have a suitable guide book this is not a problem).
Quite interesting also the Dolmen de El Romeral.
HChavez visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5
ShamrockStone MAIGO have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.2 Ambience: 4.2 Access: 4.6
For a few euro, he will then switch on the electric lighting in the cairns and give you a description of the sites - in Spanish dotted with the occasional English noun.
This, at least, was the situation in October 2002.
The Menga site is famous for being the largest "dolmen" in Europe (and maybe the world!). Its chamber measures 25m x 6m at its widest making it about 50% bigger than the Loire Grand Dolmen. What a pity you cannot get into it but there are structural problems which make it unsafe.
The Viera site also has structural problems. On paper, this looks to me to be the most interesting of the three Antequera sites. A 24m long passage leads to a square port-hole stone beyond which is a small square end chamber.
Recently was a well found in the dolmen.
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