Menorca has so many things to recommend it as a splendid place to spend a vacation, that it would be impossible to list them all, but it is certain that the best Menorca hotels have all the bases covered. Whatever your desires for the perfect holiday, you can certainly find them fulfilled here. Our hotels have luxurious accommodations and a very good dose of local flavor, so that all members of the family will find something here. Adventure, exploring, sun and sand, excellent food, or rejuvenation of the body and mind, all of these are within reach. Menorca has a reputation for excellent snorkling, a marvelously healthy island vibe, and an immensely fascinating prehistory.
One of the prehistoric cultures here, the Talayots, was named for the towers that greeted visitors. Every villa had them, and they all face southeast or southwest. Archeologists recently started to suggest that these were built with another reason: to observe the Southern Cross. It’s entirely likely, since this would have been a unique point to observe this constellation at the time.
This is just an example of the fascinating marvels of Menorca, and there are many. Enough that archeologist William Waldren would devote many years, and many pages of academic writing, to the mysteries here. Waldren, who passed in 2003, was by all accounts a fascinating character. A real renaissance man, he was an accomplished artist, and a champion figure skater, before he pursued his doctoral degree from Oxford when he was fifty years old. Waldren was also supported by Earthwatch when it was just a fledgling organization. An expert on the prehistoric cultures and artifacts here, his memory lies somewhere in these old stones.
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