Phoenician and Carthaginian

Na Guardis

Today: Ses Salines, Spain

Years: 400 BCE–146 BCE

An islet facing Colònia de Sant Jordi, on the south coast of Mallorca, which the Punics of Ibiza used as a trading post from the 4th century BCE. It was the Mallorcan end of their network: a house, a metalworking shop with its furnace, and narrow storerooms with their doors to the sea, to unload straight from the ships. Rome made it pointless when it took the Balearics, between 130 and 120 BCE.

What to see today

Yacimiento púnico de Na Guardis (Na Guardis): Archaeological site, c. 400 to 130 BCE

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