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Drach cave
Drach cave
Leaving the Dragon CavesThe Monument to the first settlers
In the 1st century AD the Romans built a port in the area (you can visit the site of a Roman port behind the harbor, a Roman basilica and see the remains of a Roman ship which were found here just a few years ago). Then the settlement was abandoned for 2,000 years. Only in 1877 the Vadell family, proceeding from the neighbor fishing village Porto Colom, settled down in a cave located in the gardens in front of today’s Club Nàutic. Together with the Perlins family they were the first to found the Port of Manacor. On the occasion of the centennial of the foundation of Porto Cristo, in 1998, a bronze plaque, a work of Pere Pujol, was placed there in their memory.
