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Dolmen
Dolmen sites reveal how different traditions shape sacred space through architecture, landscape, ritual, and memory.
28 dolmen sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
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Dolmen sacred sites overview
Dolmen sacred sites span countries, traditions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes represented in the Pilgrim Map atlas.
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| Coverage | 28 dolmen sacred sites across the current atlas. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 1 UNESCO-tagged dolmen site appear in this browse view. |
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Anta-Capela de Nossa Senhora do Livramento
Montemor-o-Novo, Évora, Portugal
Beside a rural road in the Alentejo, five granite pillars nearly three meters tall support a roof that is not their own....
Antequera, Dolmen de Menga
Antequera, Andalusia, Spain
In the Andalusian landscape near Antequera, three megalithic tombs demonstrate that 5,500 years ago, humans were already creating monuments of extraordinary ambition and...
Bodowyr Dolmen
Llangaffo, Cymru / Wales, United Kingdom
In a quiet farmer's field on Anglesey, three standing stones bear a mushroom-shaped capstone that has marked this hilltop for over five thousand years....
Carwynnen Quoit
Camborne, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Near Camborne in Cornwall, a ten-ton capstone once again rests on its supporting pillars, restored in 2014 after lying collapsed for nearly five decades....
Casa di l’Urca
Santo-Pietro-di-Tenda, Monte Revincu / Haute-Corse / Corsica, 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...
Chun Quoit
Bojewyan, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the West Penwith moorland, Chun Quoit is Cornwall's best-preserved Neolithic chambered tomb....
Clynnog Fawr Dolmen
Clynnog Fawr, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
On a hillside between mountains and sea near Clynnog Fawr, a Neolithic burial chamber has stood for over five thousand years....
Dolmen Ciuledda
Luras, Sardinia, Italy
In a valley northeast of Luras, a small megalithic structure has kept its chamber dry for nearly five millennia....
Dolmen de la Madeleine
Gennes, Pays de la 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....
Dolmen de Soto
Trigueros, Trigueros, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain
Dolmen de Soto is a Chalcolithic passage grave near Trigueros, Huelva, built around 2500-3000 BC by dismantling and repurposing an even older sanctuary of standing stones....
Dolmen di Billella o Bilella
Luras, Sardinia, Italy
Among the vermentino and nebiolo vines that cover the hillsides near Luras, a Neolithic dolmen rises less than a meter from the earth....
Dolmen di Ladas
Luras, Sardinia, Italy
Six meters of gallery. A covering slab nearly five meters long. A polished backing stone of fifteen square meters....
Dolmen of Axeitos
Ribeira, Ribeira, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Raised roughly six thousand years ago on Galicia's Barbanza Peninsula, the Dolmen of Axeitos is a Neolithic portal tomb of eight granite orthostats supporting a single...
Dolmen of Dombate
Cabana de Bergantiños, Cabana de Bergantiños, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Built and enlarged across the 4th millennium BCE on Galicia's Costa da Morte, the Dombate dolmen holds one of the rarest survivals in Iberian megalithic art: painted...
Dolmen of Guadalperal
El Gordo, Extremadura, Spain
Beneath the Valdecanas Reservoir in Extremadura lie the remains of a corridor tomb built between the fifth and third millennia BCE....
Dolmen of Merillés
Tineo, Tineo, Asturias, Spain
The Dolmen de Merillés stands at roughly 790 metres on the Sierra de Merillés in Tineo, Asturias, a megalithic chamber dated typologically to the Late Neolithic or...
Dolmen of Sorginetxe
Agurain/Salvatierra, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain
On the Alava Plain where the cultivated lowlands meet the rising slopes of the Entzia range, a dolmen of massive limestone slabs has stood for four and a half millennia....
Dolmen Sa Coveccada
Mores, Sardinia, Italy
On a trachyte plateau south of Mores, three massive slabs of grey-pink stone support an 18-tonne capstone....
Fontanaccia Dolmen
Sartène, Corsica, 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....
Havängsdösen Dolmen
Simrishamns kommun, Skåne län, Sweden
Havangsdosen stands on the wind-swept Osterlen steppe above the Baltic Sea, a 5,500-year-old dolmen whose chamber opening faces the sunrise on the spring and autumn...
Jättakullen Hällkista Dolmen
Vårgårda kommun, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Jattakullen rises from a hilltop between the Nossan river and the plains of Vastergotland, its fourteen-meter stone cist making it the largest hallkista in the entire...
Kilclooney Dolmen, Ardara, Ireland
County Donegal, Glenties Municipal District, Ireland
On a working farm near Ardara in County Donegal, two Neolithic portal tombs stand within sight of each other, the larger crowned by a massive capstone that has balanced on...
Lanyon Quoit
Madron, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Lanyon Quoit rises from the West Penwith landscape like a statement from another age....
Llech-y-tribedd
Moylgrove, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
Rising from a quiet Pembrokeshire hillside, Llech-y-tribedd is a portal dolmen built by Neolithic farming communities around 4000 BCE....
S'Aigua Dolça Dolmen
Artà, Artà, Mallorca, Spain
S'Aigua Dolça is one of only two confirmed dolmens on Mallorca, a small stone burial chamber near the Bay of Alcúdia dated to roughly 1750 BCE — centuries before the...
Tholos de El Romeral
Antequera, Andalusia, Spain
In the Antequera basin of Andalusia, the Tholos de El Romeral stands as one of the finest examples of corbelled megalithic architecture in Europe....
Trellyffaint Burial Chamber
Nevern, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
Raised some six thousand years ago on a Pembrokeshire ridge, Trellyffaint Burial Chamber stands as one of Wales's oldest megalithic monuments....
Trethevy Quoit
St Cleer, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the fields of east Cornwall, Trethevy Quoit has stood for over five thousand years as one of Britain's finest portal dolmens....
Key questions
Dolmen sacred-site questions
- What dolmen sacred sites are included?
- Dolmen sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 28 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these dolmen sites located?
- Major country clusters include Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Sweden, Ireland.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Celtic and Prehistoric, Prehistoric/Megalithic, Neolithic, Talayotic Culture.
- Can I view dolmen sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Compare the country and tradition clusters, switch to map view for geography, then use site pages for practical context and related places.