Archaeological Complex
The complex formed by the Menga, Viera and El Romeral Dolmens located in the Málaga town of Antequera and awarded as UNESCO World Heritage in 2016 is an archaeological space of extraordinary beauty and singularity, besides one of the best examples o ...
Visit Itinerary
The visit to this site of great heritage value and tourist interest also includes others stops along the way. Firstly, it is worth to mention the Centro de Recepción where an interesting documentary about the Menga construction process is shown. Aft ...
Menga Dolmen
The Menga Dolmen was erected more than 5500 years ago and is one of the summits of the lintelled architecture in the European Prehistory. The grandeur of this dolmen lies in the creation of an amazing inner space incomparable with others from the Eu ...
Viera Dolmen
Approximately 4500 years old, the Viera Dolmen, like the Menga one, can be considered as a corridor sepulchre as it also represents one of the great megalithic traditions of the Iberian Peninsula: the lintelled architecture. This dolmen is formed ...
Tholos El Romeral
The known as El Romeral dolmen is different from the Menga and Viera ones as regards the construction architectonical technique. It is a sepulchre of fake dome, usually called “tholos” and which was constructed with the row’s approximation technique ...
The building Works of the new Museum of the Antequera Dolmens Site are finished
Last January, during a visit to the Archaeological Complex of the Antequera Dolmens, the Councillors of the Presidency, Public and Internal Administration, Culture and Historic Heritage, Mr Elías Ben ...
“Andalucía World Heritage” documentary series
Because their size and constructive characteristics, the Antequera megaliths are an exceptional legacy from the European Prehistory. Thanks to these three monuments, we can know the funerary practice ...