From Ciutadella city take the road to "Punta Nati or el Faro Nati". Few minutes before arriving to this lighthouse, on your right you will find a wild road, the last turning you will find, to the Ses Truqueries farm.

After visiting Sa Sínia from this farm, you could take advantage and visit the cliffs and the bare landscape from Punta Nati, above all at dusk, from where you will get some excellent views of the Sun when it disappears into the sea.

"Sa Sínia", how it´s known by people from Menorca, it was left by Moorish people when they were in Menorca and it was used to water vegetable gardens.

In Menorca history there have been two kinds of sinia: a primitive one, wooden one, and the modern one, make of iron. Around wells they built a paved area that was used to have a mule walk around in circles and help to operate the machinery. One can usually find an "higuera" tree close to the well. It was used by peasants to rest under shadow. The animal had its eyes semi covered to not be diverted in its work.

The wheel from Sinia is composed by small cups. These cups, with the help of the animals, were filled up of water.

After the Civil Spanish war, about 1940, Sínies were replaced by pumps to draw water from underground.

Nowadays, Sínies are not used anymore to extract water. However, peasants from Ses Truqueries use the Sínia to remember old times, and to show to schools how it worked or to conserve the tradition that, slowly, being lost by the peasants.

   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]

Garballó Chamaerops humilis Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

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

Rosella Papaver rhoeas Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Morrissà bord o Salivetes del bon jesus Alyssum maritimum Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Malva Malva sylvestris Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Flor d'avellana o Vinagrella Oxalis pes-caprae Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

Rapa de frare o Frare cugot Arisarum vulgare Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

 

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

	Banyarriquer Cerambyx cerdo Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Tortuga Testudo hemani Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Eriçó Erinaceus algirus Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Blauet Alcedo atthis Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Llagost Anacridium aegyptum Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Xoriguer o Xòric Falco tinnunculus Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Puput Upupa epops Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]

 

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

	Orella de rata blanca Helvella crispa Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Olleta Peziza vesiculosa Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]
	Trichaptum abietinum Trichaptum abietinum Click here for more information... [Vegetables] - [Animals] - [Fungus]