If you’ve ever been to Ibiza, or more accurately San Antonio, you’ll definitely have noticed the Egg Roundabout just as you pull into San An’s gorgeous sea front. It gives access to the town itself and also to the bay and is a great central location to arrange to meet a friend/colleague/dealer. However, there is a lot more to this roundabout than meets the eye. So, here at Ibiza Club News we’ve decided to put together a list of five things you didn’t know about the Egg Roundabout.
The world’s oldest roundabout
The Egg Roundabout was built during the Roman occupation of Ibiza around 100 BC making it officially the world’s oldest functioning roundabout, although the egg was only added about a thousand years later. According to legend, Roman soldiers would gather and drink on the roundabout because the only nightclub open back then was Es Paradis, and nobody goes to Es Paradis.
It’s a dinosaur egg
Believe it or not, the egg you see every day in San Antonio is a genuine dinosaur egg. According to local history, the egg was discovered high in the hills overlooking San Antonio by Spanish archaeologist Juan Atkins in the year 1056. However, a year later Portuguese smugglers tried to steal the egg but dropped it, in its current location, while making their escape and it has been left there ever since.
The King of Spain once pissed on it
Philip II of Spain, who ruled between 1556 and 1598, is reported to have pissed against the egg after a drunken night on San Antonio’s West End. This had a disastrous knock on effect for Philip, with San Antonio’s residents revolting against their King’s action and eventually overthrowing him at at the Battle of Playa d’en Bossa.
There has been over 10,000 British babies conceived there
The egg has long been used as a spot for a quick knee trembler after the pubs and clubs of San Antonio close. According to the latest British census, over ten thousand children have been conceived on various parts of the egg and roundabout, although these are believed to be conservative figures, with some parties reporting that the number could actually be closer to one hundred thousand.
If you walk around it ten time backwards at midnight you’ll see Judge Jules
According to superstition, if you walk around the roundabout ten times backwards at midnight Judge Jules will appear. Here at Ibiza Club News we’re a little bit skeptical about this one as, so far, all of the sightings have involved ketamine and been on the same night as Jules’s Judgement night in nearby Eden.