
The small one of the Pitiüses islands offers to the traveler an environment of tranquility and calm that turns out to be even mysterious but, ¿why this sensation of solitude is owed and calm that breathes? Investigating a little in his history we find a possible explanation. The population of Formentera has gone changing with the time; in their origins, 4000 years ago, there was a high number of inhabitants, that judging by the archaeological remainders of the epoch, they lived well organized.
The Greeks invented a legend that cause fright and scared for go away the strangers. According to this, the island was plagued of amphibians and dangerous reptiles, and they called to Formentera: Ophiussa (island of snakes). The legend continued during centuries, Punic, Phoenicians, and Romans continued believing such histories. As frontier territory, the island was invaded by many different towns, (Visigoth, vandals, Byzantine…). But none of them lived for a long time there.







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