La pedrera de Santa Ponça.

New Normality day 78.
Took a trip today to this disused quarry; the dogs loved it and there was lots of lovely texture to see in the hand- and machine-worked walls.


Menorca has fifteen quarries listed as Assets of Cultural Interest, a protection that is the culmination of the long road that must be traveled to recover them. The one in Santa Ponça, in Alaior, has been disused for almost half a century, but its imposing walls (made of sandstone more than fifteen meters high) are a testament to the work carried out there since the 20s of the twentieth century to build many of the buildings of Menorca.


The first of the extras features a Mount Rushmore-type huge rendering of a Trump-ish profile, and the third shows Minnie2 wondering how to lose a chain we were trying out for size on her harness.