Es Galliner de Madona is an isolated hypostyle hall, with a semicircular floor plan and a straight facade that rests on the rock on one side and which is accessed through a door with a monolithic lintel.
Inside there are five columns and nine Mediterranean-type pilasters, which is to say, it has a narrow base that expands as the ceiling rises.
On the slab roof, remains of a wall suggest that there may have been an upper floor.
Schedule: Arranged visits
Price: Free
Open: Yes
Access: Accessible from Es Migjorn Gran, along the Malagarba-Binigaus Nou road, which starts near the cementery. After a 2 kilometers walk to the farm houses, you’ll find the monument located behind them.
Car Park: Not enabled. You can park in the cementery.
Guided tours: No
Contact: info@gallinerdemadona.com
Services: No
Access for individuals with reduced mobility: No
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Talayotic period
The building takes advantage of part of the ravine’s rocky wall to support the roof and part of the closing wall. Its façade is oriented towards the north-west, where the original access door to the building is preserved with its monolithic lintel, but is now closed. Access to the building interior goes through an open area at the south-east, where an old collapse of the structure has been documented.
The outer wall has a very regular surface. Inside, the roof, made up of large slabs, is supported by five polylithic columns (made up of superimposed stone blocks that increase in size as the column gains height towards the ceiling) and nine pilasters, attached to the walls. It has a partially destroyed slab roof. Above this construction, you can see the remains of what could have been another construction or perhaps a second floor.