Hipogeo de Torre del Ram

Scratched into the walls of the chamber are three sailing ships, alongside other figures that have never been identified. Some authors place them in the Bronze Age; their date has not been settled, and they could have been cut in any later period.

The tomb itself is plain to read. A stepped corridor 2.60 m long drops into a rectangular chamber 8.80 m long and 2.50 m wide, with a stone bench running round the inside. Part of the stone gallery that once roofed the corridor and the entrance still stands, built of massive blocks in the Cyclopean technique.

Then there is where it sits: on a street corner in the middle of Cala en Blanes, a prehistoric grave among the streets of a resort.

• Bring a torch or use your phone light: the chamber is unlit.
• Getting in means an awkward climb down a stepped corridor, and the chamber roof is 1.95 m high, so tall visitors will stoop.
• From the road the site looks like a few large rocks in a small field; a sign in the field explains what it is.
• The tomb was emptied centuries ago. What remains is the architecture, the bench and the engravings.
• There are no toilets at the site; the nearest are about 600 m away in a straight line.

The hypogeum stands on a street corner in Cala en Blanes, the resort west of Ciutadella. The nearest bus stop, Av. Cales Piques, is about 200 m away in a straight line, and the nearest car park, on asphalt, about 270 m away.

From the pavement it looks like a few large rocks in a small field. Walk into the field to the sign, then take the stepped corridor down into the chamber. The climb down is awkward, so keep a hand free and your light ready.

Best: a hot summer afternoon, as a break from the beach or a walk through Cala en Blanes.

Avoid: dusk and after dark.

The chamber lies underground and stays cool when the streets are baking, but it has no lighting, and once daylight fades the steps down are hard to see even with a torch.