Puig des Molins Necropolis

Part of the visit happens underground. You go down into the hill and stand in a burial chamber with the sarcophagi still where they were laid, then look down into the tomb shafts from above. Some graves held the dead of three different eras, each prepared by the rites of its own culture.

Indoors, five rooms follow death on the island from the Phoenician period (626–525 BC) through Punic funerary rituals and burials to Roman times and late antiquity, with a final room for the Sainz de la Cuesta collection. The bust of the goddess Tanit is the piece the collection is built around. The museum is compact, and the whole visit, indoors and out, takes 45 minutes to an hour.

• Entry is free and no ticket is issued.
• Bags go into a locker before the visit. The lock takes a €1 coin, which drops back out when you unlock it, so carry one.
• Allow 45 minutes to an hour for the museum and the outdoor tombs together.
• After heavy rain, parts of the outdoor site can be closed off.
• There are toilets inside the museum.

Puig des Molins stands on a hill inside Ibiza Town, so the last stretch is a walk through town streets. The nearest bus stops, Consell Insular d'Eivissa and Vara de Rey, lie about 230 m and 250 m away in a straight line. Arriving by car, the nearest parking areas are about 280 m away in a straight line, and the rest is on foot.

Best: a morning from Tuesday to Saturday, or Friday evening, the one day the museum reopens after its afternoon close.

Avoid: Mondays, when it is closed, and the middle of the day in summer.

Half the visit is outdoors among the tombs on an open hillside, where the Balearic summer sun is hardest to bear around noon, and Sunday's shorter session leaves less time to see both parts.