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Dolmen of la Cabana Arqueta

Espolla, Alt Empordà, Girona

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Dolmen of la Cabana Arqueta

Nature · Espolla, Alt Empordà, Girona

Megalithic dolmen built between 2700 and 2500 BC, one of the numerous ones preserved in the municipality of Espolla, in the Alt Empordà, not far from the boundary with Sant Climent Sescebes. Located on a 150-metre hill with wide views over the Empordà plain, it is a gallery grave with a polygonal chamber facing south-east, 2.50 metres long by 2 metres high, built entirely of granite. It was already serving as a boundary marker in 1110; in 1866 it was visited by a French scholar, and in 1879 it was made known by the Espolla schoolteacher Antoni Balmanya. First excavated in 1920 by Lluís Pericot and Pere Bosch Gimpera, who found a flint dagger in the chamber, it was restored at the end of the 20th century by GESEART to consolidate its most deteriorated parts.

Photo: Emporda profund (Wikimedia Commons) (Public domain)

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