CLOSOS DE CAN GAIÀ
(Prehistoric site from the Bronze Age)
The prehistoric site Closos de Can Gaià near Portocolom is one of the most important settlements from the Bronze Age in Mallorca. It was inhabited roughly between 1700 and 750 BC.
Remarkable are the nine buildings that have been discovered and excavated to date. Those structures, called navetas, served mainly as private dwellings or houses, but they clearly had also a communal and symbolic function and were used as places for the settlement's social and important gatherings.
From 1996 onwards, the University of the Balearic Islands started campaigns for excavation. Since then, those campaigns have taken place every summer, with the support of the Town Council of Felanitx.