The island cities of Ibiza offer a home to about ten thousand people, but, of course, in the summer months, that number skyrockets as travelers find their way to luxury ibiza hotels.  The largest of the communities on this Mediterranean island are Ibiza Town (also known as the Vila d’Eivissa, or, more simply as Vila), Santa Eularia des Riu, and then Sant Antoni de Portmany.  All of these cities are well known for their hospitality and night clubs and restaurants — but, if you’re seeking a different side of the island, you may be more interested in the monuments available for sight-seers, and, if so, you may well want to find your way to Sa Caleta peninsula, where it’s thought that Phoenicians came sometime in the eighth century B.C. and settled.

Today, over two hundred centuries later, you will find the remains of a Phoenician village, a monument to Ibiza’s past.  While there’s some guess work involved, it seems that the Phoenicians arrived gradually onto the Iberian peninsula, until they created throughout the seventh century B.C. a large urban community.  The schematic remains of the buildings suggest that the Phoenicians were communal, sharing large ovens, which may have been used for a variety of purposes: sandstone mills, milling grain, and baking bread.

In the same area, you’ll find a number of pottery shards — jugs, plates, lamps, pitchers — and bronze cooking utinsels, as well as fishing hooks and weaves for nets; but, it seems, the major occupation of the Phoenicians on the peninsula, was metal work — instruments and evidence of lead-making are apparent, as well as methods used to extract silver.  The Phoenicians later left Sa Caleta in 600 BC and resettled in Eivissa, creating the origins today’s Ibiza Town.  For history lover’s, Sa Caleta is not simply a sight with amazing, white sandy beaches, but a place where you can find the very origin of modern Ibiza Town.

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