Antequera Dolmens Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Dear guest, Antequera is a municipality located in the north of the province of Malaga with a population of 42,000. It is also a very important neuralgic and strategic point for the Andalusian region, since it is located in the center of Andalusia and the main roads of Andalusia pass through this municipality, those that connect Córdoba with Malaga and Seville with Granada.

In 2016, its main monuments, the Dolmens and the natural spaces of El Torcal and Peña de los Enamorados were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As a whole, the candidacy was given the name of the Antequera Dolmens Site.

The Antequera Dolmens Site, which had entered the Tentative List of World Heritage in 2012, is presented as a serial cultural asset made up of three cultural assets (the Menga and Viera Dolmens and El Romeral tholos) and two natural assets (La Peña de los Enamorados and El Torcal de Antequera). It is one of the first conscious integrations of architecture and monumental landscape of European Prehistory, derived from Neolithic settlers whose origin dates back to the beginning of the 6th millennium BCE. Built in the Neolithic period and in the Copper Age with large stone blocks that form chambers and spaces with lintel cover (Menga and Viera) or false dome (El Romeral), the Antequera megaliths were used for ritual and funerary purposes and are recognized exponents of European Megalithism. The megalithic structures appear under the appearance of a natural landscape (buried under earth mounds), subordinating their orientation to two natural monuments: La Peña de los Enamorados and El Torcal. Both constitute two indisputable visual landmarks of the Site.

UNESCO has followed the recommendation of its advisory body ICOMOS (International Council of Sites and Monuments), which in its report has stated that the Antequera Dolmens Site has "exceptional universal value".

Spain is the third country in the world in number of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List: the Antequera Dolmens Site is the 45th cultural asset in this country to be part of this prestigious list.

Dear guest, if you want to visit these wonderful monuments, I leave you the Google Maps link: