Architecture detail Minorca Menorca Spain Europe Mediterranean Sea
architectural style combines local characteristics with English influence which can be seen in the streets the houses without balconies and the buildings around the harbour with guillotine windows The old part of the town is centred around the church of Santa Maria There is a beautiful natural harbour reckoned to be the safest anchorage in the Mediterranean The town has many shops and some fascinating markets The abundance of stones on Minorca has also produced that marvel of popular architecture the livestock shelter which we call the barraques or ponts These shelters I won t call them cow sheds are of stepped construction and have several stories and almost seem to be miniature versions of the Babylonian ziggurats On the road from Ciudadella to Punta Nati you can see several perfectly conserved barraques still in use attractive mixture of colonial and local architecture Minorca Mca second largest Spanish Balearic Balears Balearics Baleares Islands western Mediterranean intended many bays rocky headlands particularly less fertile north which fringed islets southern coast more sheltered from north winds has relatively pleasant climate Mahón Maó southeastern coast chief town It has one largest harbors Mediterranean cultivated land around it marked by windmills once island s Moorish capital located western tip Mca It has Gothic cathedral several interesting 17th century palaces There some agriculture southern plateau Cattle sheep goats raised fishing contributes economy Manufactures include shoes textiles soap cheese wine Megalithic remains bear witness Mca s prehistoric settlement Like other Mediterranean islands Mca was occupied turn by Phoenicians Carthaginians Romans Vandals Moors Although it became part Spain 15th century it continued be plundered for centuries by corsairs seized island early 18th century lost regained it several times then returned it Spain by Treaty Amiens 1802 Mca remained Loyalist side through most Spanish Civil War 1936 1939 unusual natural
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