The Dolmen de Menga and Dolmen de Viera , both dating from around 2500 BC, are 1km from the town centre in a small, wooded park beside the road that leads northeast to the A45. Head down Calle Encarnación from the central Plaza de San Sebastián and follow the signs.
A third chamber, the Dolmen del Romeral , is 5km further out of town. It is of later construction (around 1800 BC) and features the use of small stones for its walls.
Prehistoric people of the Copper Age transported dozens of huge slabs from the nearby hills to construct these burial chambers. The stone frames were covered with mounds of earth. The engineering implications for the time are astonishing. Menga, the larger, is 25m long, 4m high and composed of 32 slabs, the largest of which weighs 180 tonnes. In midsummer the sun rising behind the Peña de los Enamorados hill to the northeast shines directly into the chamber mouth.
To get here, continue 2.5km past Menga and Viera through an industrial estate, then turn left following ‘Córdoba, Seville’ signs. After 500m, turn left at a roundabout and follow ‘Dolmen del Romeral’ signs for 200m.
