Parque Cultural La Zarza y La Zarcita

The well-known one with the name of Cultural Park of La Zarza and La Zarcita is one of the best known archaeological sites of Palma and the archipelago. The site is located in the municipality of Garafía between the neighborhoods of La Mata and Llano Negro, consisting of two rock formations La Zarza and La Zarcita .

The sites were known thanks to A. Mata and E. Serra in 1941, the engravings that can be seen in it are the most spectacular element of La Zarza, both for the breadth of the surface recorded with 29 panels and for the complexity of the same and the broad chronology they show. Ceramic remains of phase IV were discovered, lithic tools, two fragments correspond to containers made of wood and human remains of a maxilla and fragments of the frontal and right parietal of a young individual.

The deposit of La Zarcita is smaller than that of La Zarza, with 18 panels and an interesting variety of motifs, about 500 meters from La Zarza, has two seasons La Zarcita I, with two panels formed by a spiral and spiral with meanders to the sunsets of the summer and winter solstices. And La Zarcita II with 20 panels, of which 15 are oriented to the dawn of the summer solstice and 5 to the dawn of the winter solstice.