The Consell de Mallorca is carrying out archaeological studies in Sa Tanca de Can Domènech in Alcúdia during September and October to verify that there are no remains of the Roman city.

The Consell de Mallorca is working to make the Mallorcan Archaeology Centre a reality as soon as possible. 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 on the island’s archaeological sites and are now in storage. It will also have multi-purpose spaces equipped to provide researchers with all the tools they need.

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The Mallorcan Archaeology Centre, is closer to becoming a reality

The vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca and councillor of Culture and Heritage, Antònia Roca, today visited the site where the building is to be constructed to verify that there is no significant archaeological material, such as the remains of the Roman city of Pollentia, which is located next door.

Roca explained that work has been underway since 1 September and, for the moment, the conclusions are satisfactory, although this investigation will continue until the end of October. Once it is verified that it can be built in the area, the project can be launched.

The centre aims to provide shelter and visibility for all the objects found on the island’s archaeological sites and which are now in storage. In addition, the Mallorcan Archaeology Centre will provide researchers with multi-purpose rooms equipped to enable them to carry out their work as professionally as possible.

In this way, Antònia Roca explained, it shows its commitment to ‘rehabilitate, conserve and disseminate our culture and heritage’ and will be able to ‘centralise all the island’s archaeological activity to make it known to all Mallorcans and visitors’. All of this, he insisted, while supporting the island’s archaeologists.

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