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Prehistoric sacred sites in France
Explore 9 sacred sites in France connected to Prehistoric. Compare locations on the map and find respectful cultural and visiting guidance.
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Araghju
Corse-du-Sud, France
Araghju is a Torrean casteddu on a hilltop promontory above the Porto-Vecchio coastal plain — a Bronze Age circular enclosure with walls still standing three to five...
Capula
Corse-du-Sud, France
Capula is the atmospheric climax of the Cucuruzzu circuit in southern Corsica — a site where Bronze Age Torrean foundations underlie a 9th-century medieval castrum, and...
Casteddu di Tappa
Corse-du-Sud, France
Casteddu di Tappa is one of southern Corsica's most complete Torrean Bronze Age complexes — a cyclopean-walled village crowned by a circular ceremonial torre that...
Ceccia
Corse-du-Sud, France
Casteddu di Ceccia is a Torrean Bronze Age torra monument dating to approximately 1350 BCE, preserved on a rocky outcrop in the village of Ceccia south of Porto-Vecchio....
Cucuruzzu
Corse-du-Sud, France
Cucuruzzu is the finest surviving example of a Torrean casteddu — a Bronze Age fortified hilltop settlement built in Corsica's Alta Rocca plateau between 1800 and 800 BCE....
Monument torréen de Foce
Corse-du-Sud, France
The Monument torréen de Foce is one of Corsica's best-preserved standalone Bronze Age torre structures — a single circular tower of cyclopean dry-stone masonry, standing...
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....
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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