Naveta dels Tudons

The Naveta Des Tudons is the most famous prehistoric monument in Menorca and is said to be the oldest building in Europe. It is a funeral construction from Menorcan prehistory used between the years 1200 and 750 B.C. It is a collective tomb that, when excavated and restored in the 1950s provided the remains of at least 100 individuals and objects from their funerary deposits: bronze bracelets, bone buttons and ceramics. It is one of the best preserved prehistoric constructions in Menorca. The first author to deal with this building was Joan Ramis, in his work Antigüedades celticas de la isla de Menorca, in 1818, which is the first book in Spanish entirely dedicated to prehistory. During the weekend of the 17th of March 2018, the monument was severely vandalized, suffering graffiti on 81 of the stones that make up the building. Resguard was mmissioned by the Consell Insular de Menorca to carry out a study to clean up the monument.