Route description
This route lets us enjoy and discover megalithic funerary monuments, 100 years after their discovery by P. Bosch Gimpera. With this route we once again shed light on and commemorate these monumental markers, which allow us to understand the reality of the funerary world during the 7th and 6th centuries BC.
The tumuli are circular-plan burials corresponding to the earliest phases of Iberian culture. They consist of a cist or stone box in which an urn containing the ashes of the deceased and grave goods were placed, then covered with earth and stones. This type of burial is characteristic of the area and has the particularity that the cist is in an eccentric position (outside the centre of the tumulus).
The route passes through a path between fields of centuries-old olive trees, cereal crops and almond groves, dotted with small woodland patches, against the backdrop of the Puertos de Beceite mountains. Along the way you can also enjoy other cultural traces such as the rock engravings of Mas d'en Jerra I, the ancient mule track that linked Cretas and Arens de Lledó, and the Pedrafita boundary stone marking the municipal limits of Arens de Lledó, Lledó and Cretas, as well as other traditional structures.
