Description

“Closos Can Gaia" is a Settlement of Navetas (Common dwellings of the area for this time period) of which nine are preserved perfectly identifiable. However, sections of broken walls in the site suggest there must have been more.The arrangement of structures on the ground is scattered but all are orientated in a way where they are facing South East.

The settlement was built around 1700BC, at the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Balearic Islands. It was inhabited until 850 BC, at which time the first talaiots were already operating. Various activities have been documented in the surrounding area during the Byzantine Occupation of Majorca in the Islamic period, in modern and contemporary times as well.


Located about 700 m away from the coast, the land surrounding it contains very red clay and very rocky outcrops that constantly appear to be bedrock. Climatic conditions are characterized small amount of rainfall resulting in a low scrubland vegetation environment. Few pine trees and many wild olive, mastic, rosemary and other species of the Mediterranean can be found throughout the area .However, both continued agricultural work since the mid-twentieth century and the recent development of the area has unfortunately destroyed much of the local vegetation.