The Balearic Islands are located 82 km from the coast of Alicante. This set of islands occupies a total area of approximately 5000 km. square, including 1874, 37% are protected natural areas, a total of 86 sites of special natural interest, this scenario impressive and strategically vital in the transitional Mediterranean, moreover hosted cultures centenarians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Muslims. The islands have been disputed and seized countless occasions, but they previously lived a people who built cities and has left traces that we are as impressive as talayótica, prior to this culture in the so-called pretalayótico period, the islands received several waves of travellers came to view the Costs of Almeria and imported culture agar to the Islands, this happened about 2000 BC.
The term of Balearic refers to the use of the deep as a weapon, Carthaginians and Romans appreciated the value of the warriors balearic narrates as Strabo, able to cross with their slingshots helmets and armor.