It will be located in Sa Tanca de Can Domènech in Alcúdia and will house the more than 40,000 pieces that have been found in the island’s archaeological sites and are now in storage. In addition, it will have multipurpose spaces equipped to provide researchers with all the tools they need.

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Centre of Archaeology of Mallorca

The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, and the vice-president and councillor of Culture and Heritage, Antònia Roca, announced today the creation of the Archaeology Center of Mallorca, which will be located in Sa Tanca de Can Domènech in Alcúdia, next to the Roman City of Pollentia. The centre aims to provide shelter and visibility to all the objects that have been found in the archaeological sites of the island and that are now in storage. In addition, the Center of Archaeology of Mallorca will make available to researchers multipurpose rooms equipped so that they can carry out their work in the most professional way possible.

In this way, explained Llorenç Galmés, the commitment to “rehabilitate, conserve and disseminate our culture and heritage” and “centralize all the archaeological activity of the island to make it known to all Mallorcans and visitors”. All this, he insisted, while supporting the island’s archaeologists.

The president of the Consell de Mallorca also criticized that, for years, “thousands and thousands of objects that have been found at sites on the island and that have a great heritage value are stored in Son Tous”. He gave as an example the 300 amphorae and archaeological pieces that were recovered from the Roman ship of Ses Fontanelles, but there are about 40,000 in total from different sites on the island.

For her part, the vice president and councillor of Culture and Heritage, Antònia Roca, has taken the opportunity to denounce the neglect that Sa Tanca de Can Domènech has suffered since it was acquired by the previous government team: “two years without any project, without any kind of surveillance and, now, with squatting”. Roca has lamented that he has not found any progress in this regard, despite the fact that the previous government team pledged to create a Center for Underwater Archaeology in this area.

Visit to Pollentia

The new government team of the Consell de Mallorca has also visited today the Roman City of Pollentia, where the directors of the excavations Miguel Àngel Cau and Catalina Mas have shown them some of the most recent findings: pieces of Italic pottery, coins, and even a large capacity Roman cistern that is now being studied.

The event was also attended by the island’s director of Heritage, Ramón Martín, who stressed the importance of “collecting, studying and showing the public all the archaeological jewels that exist in Mallorca”. In addition, the mayor of Alcúdia, Fina Linares, and the councillor of Heritage of the municipality, Margalida Ferriol, thanked him for carrying out these types of projects that will help to deseasonalize the tourist activity of the town.