Museu d'Història de Manacor — Torre dels Enagistes — Mallorca EAST
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Museu d'Història de Manacor — Torre dels Enagistes

A thirteenth-century fortified tower outside Manacor, museum since 1985. Prehistoric, Roman, early-Christian and Islamic Mallorca in four small rooms — talayotic ceramics, a complete basilica mosaic.

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The Torre dels Enagistes is a fortified medieval tower three kilometres outside Manacor, built shortly after the Catalan reconquest in the 1230s and held by the Jesuits in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The town bought it in 1985 and turned it into the local history museum. Four rooms cover the prehistoric, Roman, early Christian and Islamic layers of the Manacor plain — talayotic ceramics, Roman glass, a complete early-Christian basilica floor mosaic, Islamic well-heads. Upstairs there's a separate room with miniature furniture and ship models, and a rotating show. Most striking is what's outside the tower itself — old olive presses, agricultural tools, photographic negatives rescued from a closed Manacor printing shop. Closed Tuesdays. An hour. Combine with Drach caves or Coves del Hams.

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