Qualla: Naveta d'Es Tudons https://qualla.com/naveta-d-es-tudons en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/g/naveta-d-es-tudons-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Naveta d'Es Tudons https://qualla.com/naveta-d-es-tudons Naveta d'Es Tudons: Introduction https://qualla.com/naveta-d-es-tudons/ Photo credit Public domain. One stone is missing from the peak of the facade, and for generations the islanders had a story to explain the gap. It involved two jealous giants, a well, and a murder. The truth is stranger in its own way: the Naveta d'Es Tudons is a tomb built to resemble a ship, raised on the western tableland of Menorca more than three thousand years ago. For centuries afterward, Menorcans were so unsettled by these squat stone hulls scattered across their fields that they would not go near them. Today it is the island's most celebrated prehistoric monument.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/g/naveta-d-es-tudons-wp/sp4g-naveta-des-tudons-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Naveta d'Es Tudons: A Ship for the Dead https://qualla.com/naveta-d-es-tudons/ Photo credit Jaume Meneses, CC BY-SA 2.0. The word naveta is a Menorqui diminutive of nau, a ship or nave, and it was the imaginative Dr Juan Ramis who first gave these structures the name, in an 1818 book on the island's antiquities, struck by how much they resembled upturned boats. Es Tudons means the woodpigeons, the ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/g/naveta-d-es-tudons-wp/sp4g-naveta-des-tudons-a-ship-for-the-dead.mp3 0:06 2 full Naveta d'Es Tudons: Two Chambers, No Mortar https://qualla.com/naveta-d-es-tudons/ Photo credit Dreizung, CC BY-SA 3.0. Seen from the side, the naveta really does look like a boat turned over: a flat, trapezoidal stern for its facade, a rounded apse for its bow. It stretches about 14.5 metres long and 6.5 wide, and rises some 4.55 metres, though originally it stood around six. Every block was fitt...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/g/naveta-d-es-tudons-wp/sp4g-naveta-des-tudons-two-chambers-no-mortar.mp3 0:06 3 full Naveta d'Es Tudons: The Ossuary https://qualla.com/naveta-d-es-tudons/ Photo credit Daniel Lobo, CC BY 2.0. The two chambers were not idle spaces. The Naveta d'Es Tudons served as a collective ossuary between about 1200 and 750 BC, and the division of levels reflected a deliberate rite. The bodies of the dead were first placed in the upper chamber, where the flesh was allowed to decay;...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/g/naveta-d-es-tudons-wp/sp4g-naveta-des-tudons-the-ossuary.mp3 0:06 4 full Naveta d'Es Tudons: The Giants of Es Tudons https://qualla.com/naveta-d-es-tudons/ Photo credit Américo Toledano, CC BY-SA 4.0. The archaeology is remarkable, but the folklore is unforgettable. According to the writer Phil Lee, Menorcans remained wary of these odd, solitary monuments well into the nineteenth century, as though some memory of their purpose lingered. One story in particular clings to Es Tud...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/g/naveta-d-es-tudons-wp/sp4g-naveta-des-tudons-the-giants-of-es-tudons.mp3 0:06 5 full Naveta d'Es Tudons: Among Menorca's Navetas https://qualla.com/naveta-d-es-tudons/ Photo credit Tom Kurpjuweit, CC BY-SA 2.0 de. Es Tudons is the star, but it has company. Navetas dot Menorca and neighbouring Majorca by the dozen, some built on a single storey, others, like this one, on two, each a variation on the same idea of a stone ship for the dead. Together with the island's taula sanctuaries and tal...

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