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The Consell Insular de Menorca (CIM) presents the video Talayots for Human Rights 2021 about the Talayot lighting ceremony for Human Rights that took place on March 27th, when 32 Minorcan talayots and watch towers were lit.

Interview with Antoni Ferrer, one of the architects of the reconversion of the Talayotic Menorca candidacy.

The fifth edition of the Becatalaiotica 2021 cultural contest is already underway and registration will remain open until May 1st. The best valued proposal will win a € 2,000 scholarship.

The Consell Insular de Menorca, through its Department of Cultural Affairs, Education, Youth and Sports, has awarded the tender for the documentary about Talayotic Menorca to the company Espiral Producciones, SL.

Interview with Margarita Orfila, member of the Permanent Commission of Talayotic Menorca's candidacy as a World Heritage Site.

The Department of Cultural Affairs of the Consell Insular de Menorca and GOB Menorca are giving a new impetus to the "Som talaiòtics?” excursion program with the aim of spreading the Talayotic Menorca candidacy among the island's population.

Maite Mira was announced the winner of a 2,000 euros scholarship during an Instagram Live on the Becatalaiotica profile. The conseller of Cultural Affairs, Miquel Àngel Maria, and the previous edition winner, Pau Canivell, also partipated in the session.

Interview with Cipriano Marín, coordinator and editor of the new Talayotic Menorca nomination file as a World Heritage Site.

Talayotic Menorca candidacy stars in ‘Marca España’, a Radio Exterior program, with an interview to the conseller of Cultural Affairs, Miquel Àngel Maria.

Archaeologists Irene Riudavets and Antoni Ferrer spoke about a new hypothesis on taulas as symbolic gates on the radio program SER Historia.

The book Torralba d'en Salort. Taula enclousures, the iron age sanctuaries of Menorca, the fifth monograph of the Sitjot collection, was presented at the Museu de Menorca with the participation of the conseller of Cultural Affairs, Miquel Àngel Maria, and the two authors, the archaeologists Cristina Bravo and Irene Riudavets.

The department of Cultural Affairs of the Consell Insular de Menorca has granted its annual financial aid for research and conservation of historical heritage.