Dolmen de Viera

The Dolmen de Viera or Dolmen de los Hermanos Viera is a dolmen — a sort of single- chamber megalithic tomb — located in Antequera, province of Malaga, Andalusia, Spain. It is located handiest 70 metres from the Dolmen de Menga and approximately 4 kilometres of another structure referred to as Tholos de El Romeral. It changed into discovered between 1903 and 1905 via brothers Antonio and Jose Viera from Antequera, who additionally located El Romeral. The Dolmen de Viera changed into built in the Copper Age, 3510-3020 BCE approx. It has had the repute of a National monument on account that 1923.

The website is owned with the aid of the Council of Culture of the Andalusian Autonomous Government, who manipulate it as a part of the Conjunto Arqueológico Dólmenes de Antequera. The dolmen turned into restored lately, and is open for visits by means of the public. In 2016, the dolmens of Menga, Viera, and El Romeral were all inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site beneath the name "Antequera Dolmens Site”. Like the Dolmen de Menga, it's far constructed with an orthostatic technique: massive stones standing upright. It consists of a protracted hall shaped with the aid of 27 stones, main to a square chamber. This is presumed to be a burial chamber, even though best silica and bone tools and ceramics had been located there. The burial chamber has unique dimensions than the corridor.