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Archaeological place sacred places in France
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Cairn de Gavrinis
Kerners, Morbihan, France
On an island in the Gulf of Morbihan, Neolithic builders created something unprecedented: a passage tomb whose every stone is carved with spirals, concentric circles, and...
Casa di l’Urca
Haute-Corse, France
Casa di l'Urca is a Neolithic passage dolmen on the rocky ridge of Cima di Suarello in Corsica's Agriates desert — built approximately 3500 BC as a collective burial...
Dolmen de la Madeleine
Gennes, Maine-et-Loire, France
On the outskirts of Gennes, near the Loire, stands one of the larger dolmens in a region second only to Brittany for megalithic density....
Fontanaccia Dolmen
Sartène, Corse-du-Sud, France
On the wild Cauria plateau in southern Corsica, a massive granite slab rests on six vertical stones, creating a burial chamber that has stood for four millennia....
Grand Menhir Brisé d'Er Grah
Locmariaquer, Morbihan, France
Before the pyramids rose in Egypt, Neolithic peoples on the coast of Brittany erected a standing stone over twenty meters tall, weighing more than three hundred tonnes....
Menhir de Champ-Dolent
Dol-de-Bretagne, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Nine and a half meters of pinkish granite rise from a field near Dol-de-Bretagne—100 tonnes hauled four kilometers by people who left no written record....
Piève statue-menhirs
Haute-Corse, France
In the village of Piève in northern Corsica, three Bronze Age granite figures stand before the parish church of San Quilicu....
Santa Maria statue-menhir
Haute-Corse, France
At a crossroads in the Castagniccia village of Cambia, a slender schist standing stone has held its ground for millennia....
Statue-menhir of Tavera
Corse-du-Sud, France
The Tavera statue-menhir is a 2.42-metre anthropomorphic standing stone carved from fine-grained granite by Bronze Age inhabitants of the Gravone valley — considered one...
U Cantonu
Corse-du-Sud, France
At the entrance to the village of Pila-Canale, near its cemetery, two granite standing stones have kept watch for three and a half millennia....
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