Description
The Son Real Necropolis is next to the sea, some 2 km to the south-east of Can Picafort in Santa Margalida Comprising dunes fixed by pine trees and Phoenician junipers. The cemetery occupies an area of some 1000 m2, where around 130 tombs and more than 400 burials have been recorded with the sea lapping by the graves. This necropolis is unique in Mallorca and the western Mediterranean. The buildings in this Mallorcan archaeological site started housing dead people from the 7th century Before the Common Era (bce) until the final years of the Talayotic period.