poblat talaiòtic de ses Païsses

Walk in from the southeast and you pass through the settlement's best-preserved gate: two vertical jamb stones topped by a single megalithic lintel, opening onto a 4.3-metre stone corridor with drainage channels still cut into the floor. The village grew outward from a central talayot, a round tower about 12 metres across raised around 850 BC; the elliptical wall that now encircles the whole site, 320 metres of masonry built from blocks up to eight tonnes each and never dressed smooth, was added later, between 640 and 540 BC, once three gated entrances secured it. People kept living here for well over a thousand years, from the late Bronze Age into the early Roman period, around 50 AD. A signposted loop trail crosses the whole circuit in under half an hour, passing house foundations and the full run of the wall along the way.