Verified37.0236° N · 4.5428° W · 480 m
Dolmens of Antequera
Sitio de los Dólmenes de Antequera
Neolithic to Bronze Age·Iberian megalithic·🇪🇸 Andalusia, Málaga Province, Spain
About
About Dolmens of Antequera
Three megalithic monuments (Menga, Viera, El Romeral) forming UNESCO site with natural monuments Peña de los Enamorados and El Torcal. Menga (c.3750 BCE) is largest known dolmen in Iberia, 25 m chamber oriented to Peña.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 3750–1800 BCE (Menga c.3750, Viera c.3500, El Romeral c.1800)
- Period
- Neolithic to Bronze Age
- Culture
- Iberian megalithic
- Purpose
- Collective burial and territorial marker with landscape orientation
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 3750–1800 BCE (Menga c.3750, Viera c.3500, El Romeral c.1800)
Initial construction
c. 1404 CE
Major expansion
Location
Where it is
37.0236° N · 4.5428° W · 480 m