From Es Migjorn Gran, follow the road to San Adeodato beach. When the road comes to an end, (on the left you can find "Es Pou d´es Captiu", a well), you have to reach the beach and take a path, on the right, which goes round the beach in a western direction.

After, following this path you have to arrive to a mouth of a gully called "Barranc de Bini Gaus Vell". Go through the gully and after a well, the valley becomes bigger and bigger slowly in front of you. Always on the left, the path goes up. At the top you can see the white shape of houses from Binigaus. You will know you are in "Sa Cova d´es Coloms" when you will come to the dark entrance to a cavern.

"Sa Cova d´es Coloms" is a enormous natural cavern at the eastern cliff of "Es Barranc de Binigaus". The Cavern is 24 metres in height, 110 metres in length and 15 metres in width, like an enormous natural Cathedral. A person becomes an insignificant element inside it.

The name of this cavern is due to a special kind of pigeons inside it, called "palomas torcaces". Nowadays they are being killed by hunters. In the past, people from Menorca came here to capture these birds.There is an important number of bats and with moss and lichen which is covering the cavern, makes a mysterious screen.

In this place a Prehistorical objec was found, it looked like a bull horn. It was used to worship the fertility. The bull is still viewed as the animal which accompany the souls to the world of the dead. It isn´t strange that the first people in Menorca used this place like a sacred place. The prehistoric people worshiped a lot of things related to the underground world. The cavern had a double mean, the fecundity of the motherly uterus and the cavern like a metaphor of the trip to the death world. In this culture they couldn´t think of life without death and death without life.

It´s told by the tradition that your destiny is tied or untied when you go inside "Sa Cova d´es Coloms". If a couple goes together inside this cavern, soon they are going to be separated, but if two unknown people go inside this cavern, they won´t be separed anymore.You can believe most part of this history of "Sa Cova d´es Coloms": at spring solstice the light of the sun shines on the deepest part of the cavern; that has been the Calipso´s mythical cavern, from which Ulises sighed for his dear Itaca; that was house of giants…

The imagination and the spectacular view of this place accepts any hypothesis.

   You can find several kinds of vegetables in this area and around it.

Pi blanc Pinus halepensis Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Pi blanc var. Ceciliae Pinus halepensis Ceciliae Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Alzina Quercus ilexo Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Carritx Ampelodesmos mauritanica Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Ullastre Prasio-oleetum Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Garrover Ceratonia siliqua Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Romaní Rosmarinus Officinalis Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Espareguera de moix o de gat Asparagus albus Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Espareguera vera Asparagus stipularis Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Vidalba Clematis cirrhosa Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Tem bord Micromeria microphylla Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Allassa blanca Allium triquetrum Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Brutònica Teucrium asiaticum Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Territjol Lotus tetraphyllus Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Ramell d'ombra Limodorum abortivum Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Mosques grosses Barlia robertiana Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Mosques negres Ophrys fusca Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Mosques vermelles Ophrys tenthredinifera Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Borinot Ophrys Balearica Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

 

   You can find these kinds of animals that you can observe if you are patient enough...

	Tortuga Testudo hermani Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Eriçò Erinaceus algirus Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Blauet Alcedo atthis Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Processionària Thaumetopoea pitycampa Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Sargantana Podarcis sp Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Trencapinyons Loxia curvirrostra Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Reietó Regulus regulus Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Puput Upupa epops Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Milà Milvus milvus Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

 

   You can find several kinds of fungus in this area and around it.

	Peu de crist, de rata o de cabrit Clavulina cinerea Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Orella de rata blanca Helvella crispa Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Esclata-sang de bruc Lactarius deliciosus Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Gírgola de pi o Llengua de pi Paxillus panuoides Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Picaronell blanc Hydnum albidum Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Pebrada Suillus collinitus Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Lactarius atlancticus Lactarius atlancticus Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]