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Tarragona Cyclopean Walls

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Massive cyclopean polygonal wall complex around the ancient city of Tarraco (modern Tarragona) on Spain's Catalan coast. Six surviving megalithic gateways with giant lintels, ~30 ft thick walls, single blocks 12-15 ft long, and platforms covering the entire town. Conventional reading: Iberian foundation phase ~5th c. BCE, later Roman additions on top. Independent reading: the cyclopean phase is much older — Hugh Newman invokes a pre-Iberian Mediterranean megalithic civilization (possibly Pelasgian / Phoenician / Canaanite) traveling the coast and building these walls, with direct stylistic parallels at Alatri (Italy), Baalbek (Lebanon), Van Castle (eastern Türkiye), and Cusco (Peru). The Romans never built with this type of construction. Tarragona is part of the same cross-continental polygonal-wall thesis as Daorson, Meydan Kalesi, Maliabad Fort, and the Tarawasi/Cusco corpus.

41.1189°, 1.2453°

Look Closer — this site carries open questions: polygonal, interlocking masonry; stones heavier than the period's tools could lift; geometry beyond period explanation.
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Cyclopean Spain | Who Built the Megalithic City of Tarragona? | MegalithomaniaCyclopean Spain | Who Built the Megalithic City of Tarragona? | MegalithomaniaHugh Newman / Megalithomania

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