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Celtic and Prehistoric sacred sites in France
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Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, Guingamp
Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, France
For nearly a millennium, pilgrims have journeyed to Guingamp seeking the intercession of Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours, Our Lady of Good Help....
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...
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....
Filitosa
Sollacaro, Corse-du-Sud, France
On a Corsican hillside overlooking the Taravo valley, twenty menhirs stand as witness to 8,000 years of human presence....
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....
Forest of Paimpont (Broceliande Forest)
Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
In the heart of Brittany, the forest once called Broceliande holds the most complete surviving landscape of Arthurian enchantment in Western Europe....
Foret de Huelgoat (Huelgoat High Forest)
Huelgoat, Finistère, France
In the heart of Brittany, a forest of moss-covered boulders and hidden caves has drawn seekers for 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....
Hêtre de Ponthus
Concoret, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
For three centuries, the Hetre de Ponthus stood near the Fountain of Barenton in Broceliande forest, the only remarkable tree in the legendary wood directly connected to...
La Roche aux Fées
Essé, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Five thousand years ago, Neolithic builders hauled forty-tonne stones four kilometers to construct the largest dolmen in France....
La Table des Marchands, Locmariaquer, France
Locmariaquer, Morbihan, France
On the Morbihan coast of Brittany lies one of Europe's most sophisticated Neolithic burial monuments....
Megaliths of Carnac
Carnac, Morbihan, France
The Megaliths of Carnac form the largest concentration of standing stones on Earth, over 3,000 menhirs arranged in rows stretching across the Brittany landscape....
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....
Palaghju (Palaggiu) Alignment
Sartène, Corse-du-Sud, France
Deep in the Corsican maquis near Sartene, 258 megaliths rise in seven groups, making Palaghju the largest alignment of standing stones in the entire Mediterranean....
Rehaghiu (Rinaghju) Menhirs
Sartène, Corse-du-Sud, France
Beneath a grove of trees on Corsica's Cauria plateau, forty-six granite menhirs stand in two parallel rows, creating what feels like a processional path through Bronze Age...
Stantari Menhirs
Sartène, Corse-du-Sud, France
On the wild Cauria plateau of southern Corsica, thirty ancient megaliths stand in alignment, seven of them bearing carved human faces, shoulders, and weapons....
Tombeau de Merlin
Paimpont, Morbihan, France
Deep in Broceliande forest, two red schist stones mark where Viviane imprisoned Merlin in a tomb of air....
Tumulus of Bougon, Bougon, France
Bougon, Deux-Sèvres, France
Before the pyramids, before Stonehenge, the Neolithic people of western France were building monuments to their dead....
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