PUIG DES MOLINS IBIZA

Beside Dalt Vila stands Puig des Molins - the Hill of Windmills. Long before the windmills appeared (which are, in any case, long gone), the hill was the largest necropolis of Carthaginian IbIza. Several thousand tombs have already been found and excavated, and more almost certainly lie below the olive groves and flower covered slopes Many of the excavated finds from the necropolis, and from that at Es Cuieram at the northeastern tip of the island, are exhibited in the Museo Monografic Puig des Molins in Via Romana on the town side of the hill. Outside the museum there is a marked walkway through the necropolis.

One excavated site can be visited. It is known as the Mule Hypogea because it was found when a mule fell down the old tomb in 1946. Hypogea is the name given to the Carthaginian method of interring the dead, one excavation containing a number of side chambers in which sarcophagi or cremated remains were placed