Less
than a kilometre from Artà, in an old holm oak wood to be found on a
small hill, is the talayot village Ses Païsses. The
archaeological group, over 3000 years old, was declared an
Artistic-Historic Monument in 1946 and between 1959 and 1963 the
Italian professor, Giovanne Lilliu, excavated there discovering most
of the constructions.
The
talayot village Ses Païsses is built round a central circular
talayot, that dominates the group fulfilling its main mission of
defence and control, and it was developed by the construction of
different rooms, a hypostyle room and a defence wall. According to
Giovanne Lilliu, the area was used until the II or I century BC, when
its inhabitants together with other people from the area settled at
the foot of the Sant
Salvador hill,
where the present day village of Artà is situated.
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