This viewpoint is located in the current fairgrounds, in the Tablada Baja, where Roman tombs and ashlars were found. (Located on Avenida de La Tablada)
Popularly known as “La Tablá Baja”, in this area is the most important archaeological site found in El Viso del Alcor. Of the six viewpoints in the municipality, this is the largest balcony in the municipality and the one with the widest and best panoramic view of La Vega. Located at the highest altitude of all, its privileged location allows us to appreciate La Vega, the Vía Verde de Los Alcores and the great promontory of “La Tablá Alta” to its right, the Natural Park of La Muela below and the town center to its left. In the annexed fairgrounds are held and fully enjoyed the Fiestas de la Santa Cruz, traditionally commemorated in the month of May.
The Tablada Baja and Alta (plateau located behind the fairgrounds) belong to an archaeological site of the first order.
La Tablada is an archaeological site located at the southern end of the town, 174 meters high at the geodesic vertex that crowns its name, occupying a plateau located south of the town and the current fairgrounds. We are in front of an Oppidum, described by Bonsor as a Punic city built on artificial terraces supported by rock terraces like Carmona and the Mesa de Gandul, remains of painted Punic ceramics can be seen, of Punic and Turdetan amphorae, red glazed pottery, western gray, handmade pottery (bowls and pots with rough finishes), and Kuass pottery, Campanian A pottery, polished axes, flint flakes, slingshot projectiles, ….. The origin of this settlement, located on a natural plateau, although raised on artificial terraces supported by rock terraces in the same way as Carmona and the Mesa de Gandul, dates back to the Chalcolithic, becoming a walled city from the Late Bronze Age until the Roman Republican period (VII-I century B.C.), when it was destroyed. The magnitude of this city of the living is directly proportional to the magnitude of the cities of the dead or associated necropolis: that of Raso del Chirolí (at the northern end of the urban area) and, especially, that of Santa Lucía, composed of 14 tumuli of varying heights (between 1.50 and 6 meters). The archaeologist Jorge Bonsor excavated a 2.35 meter high tumulus, with an incineration pit 0.80 m deep, full of ashes and with nearby burnt objects. The trousseau consisted of a small ivory boat, four combs and three ivory plates decorated with friezes of animals, palm trees and lotus flowers; two engraved shells and an ostrich egg with jagged edges and decorated with straight and zig-zag lines engraved and painted in red. This archaeological treasure is kept at the Hispanic Society of America in New York. La Tablada was a city walled by a belt of masonry that completely surrounds the plateau and two promontories that flanked the entrance, where masonry and ashlar constructions can be observed. In summary, according to the materials detected on the surface, the settlement on the plateau of La Tablada would have originated in the Late Bronze Age, reaching the Roman Republican period (VII – I century B.C.). Later, in imperial times, this place was abandoned and probably moved to the current population center.
Important vestiges of this ancient Phoenician, Carthaginian and Roman city are on display at the Corpus Christi Convent Cultural Center.