Cyclopean is a descriptor applied to the characteristic wall-building method of the Mycenaean culture. Walls were fitted together of huge irregular boulders, without mortar.
Ruins of this nature are found at Greek, Etruscan, and Anatolian sites.
The word comes from the mythical monster Cyclopes, to whom the building of such enormous walls is attributed.
The Cyclopes were said to have built the "cyclopean" fortifications at Tiryns and Mycenae in the Peloponnese.
Given the paucity of experience that the locals likely had with living elephants, they were unlikely to recognize the skull for what it actually was.
After the "Dark Age" Hellenes looked with awe at the vast dressed blocks, known as Cyclopean structures that had been used in Mycenaean masonry, at sites like Mycenae and Tiryns or on Cyprus, he then concluded that only the Cyclopes had the combination of skill and strength to build in such a monumental fashion.
Tarragona is one of the most ancient cities of Spain, probably of Iberian origin, as its coins and Cyclopeanwalls indicate.
The chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, the organ, built by the cura of Tivisa, Don Jaime Amigó, the stained glass, etc. date from the sixteenth century.
Among the buildings worthy of mention are the Churches of San Pablo and Santa Tecla, the convent of the Poor Clares, near the walls, that of Santa Teresa, and the church of the Capuchins, the parish church of the port.
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