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Megalithic
Megalithic sites reveal how different traditions shape sacred space through architecture, landscape, ritual, and memory.
31 megalithic sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
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Megalithic sacred sites span countries, traditions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes represented in the Pilgrim Map atlas.
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Adam and Eve Stones, Avebury
Beckhampton, England, United Kingdom
A mile from Avebury, two massive stones stand in a field that most visitors never reach....
Ale's Stones (Ales Stenar)
Ystads kommun, Skåne län, Sweden
On a windswept ridge above the fishing village of Kaseberga, fifty-nine massive boulders form the outline of a ship sixty-seven metres long....
Almendres Cromlech
Évora, Évora, Portugal
Built in phases from the 6th millennium BC through the Chalcolithic, Almendres Cromlech is the largest structured group of standing stones in the Iberian Peninsula — older...
Buġibba Temple
Malta
Buġibba Temple is Malta's most improbable sacred site: a Tarxien-phase megalithic temple from c....
Ca na Costa Megalithic Tomb
Es Pujols, Formentera, Es Pujols, Formentera, Spain
A stone chamber tomb on the edge of the Estany Pudent lagoon, Ca na Costa is the oldest confirmed megalithic monument in the Balearic Islands....
Callanish Stones
Callanish, Isle of Lewis, United Kingdom
On the western edge of Lewis, where the Atlantic meets the Outer Hebrides, the Callanish Stones rise from a ridge above Loch Roag....
Carrowkeel
County Sligo, Ballymote-Tubbercurry Municipal District, Ireland
On the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo, fourteen cairns built over five thousand years ago crown the ridgeline like stone sentinels....
Carrowmore
County Sligo, Sligo Municipal Borough District, Ireland
On the Coolera Peninsula near Sligo, thirty surviving megalithic monuments mark what was once a cemetery of sixty structures, among the oldest in Ireland....
Daorson megalithic site, Bosnia
Poprati, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
On a hilltop above the Neretva River valley, massive stone blocks fitted without mortar rise against the Herzegovina sky....
Devil’s Quoits
West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
In the gravel lands of the Thames Valley, a stone circle has risen again. The Devil's Quoits at Stanton Harcourt was built between 2900 and 2600 BC, a henge and stone...
Dolmen de Lácara
La Nava de Santiago, La Nava de Santiago, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
Raised from seven granite orthostats on the Extremaduran meseta between the late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, the Dolmen de Lácara is among the largest and...
Filitosa
Sollacaro, Corsica, France
On a Corsican hillside overlooking the Taravo valley, twenty menhirs stand as witness to 8,000 years of human presence....
Gunung Padang megalithic site
Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia
Crowning an extinct-volcano hill in West Java, Gunung Padang rises through five terraces of columnar andesite, the largest megalithic complex in Southeast Asia....
Ħal-Tarxien Prehistoric Complex
Malta
The Ħal-Tarxien Prehistoric Complex is the largest and most artistically accomplished of Malta's megalithic temple sites — four structures built between 3600 and 2500 BC...
Harold’s Stones
Trellech, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom
In a field at the edge of Trellech village, three standing stones rise from the Welsh earth, the tallest reaching fifteen feet despite having sunk into the ground....
Karahantepe
Şanlıurfa, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
Karahantepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey's Tek Tek Mountains, open to visitors since 2025, whose Pillar Shrine contains 11 T-shaped pillars...
Karahundj
Syunik Province, Armenia
On a high plateau above the Dar River canyon in Armenia's Syunik Province, 223 basalt stones stand in arrangements that have resisted definitive interpretation for decades....
Knocknarea megalthic site, Sligo, Ireland
County Sligo, Sligo Municipal Borough District, Ireland
Knocknarea is a flat-topped mountain on the Sligo coast crowned by one of Ireland's largest unexcavated Neolithic cairns, traditionally identified as the burial place of...
Kokino
Staro Nagoričane municipality (Kumanovo), North Macedonia
Perched at 1,013 meters on a volcanic andesite summit in North Macedonia, Kokino is a 3,800-year-old megalithic observatory and ritual site where Bronze Age communities...
La Grotte des Fées
Châtelperron, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
In the rolling hills of the Allier, a modest cave holds one of prehistory's pivotal stories....
La Roche aux Fées
Essé, Brittany, 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, Brittany, France
On the Morbihan coast of Brittany lies one of Europe's most sophisticated Neolithic burial monuments....
Loughcrew
County Meath, The Municipal District of Kells, Ireland
Loughcrew is one of Europe's largest concentrations of Neolithic passage tombs, spread across four hilltops named for the Cailleach, the divine hag of Irish mythology....
Megaliths of Carnac
Carnac, Brittany, 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....
Monte Revincu archaeological site
Santo-Pietro-di-Tenda / Haute-Corse / Corsica, France
Monte Revincu is one of the western Mediterranean's oldest and most complex megalithic landscapes — a Middle Neolithic village, three passage dolmens, stone circles, and a...
Naveta de Rafal Rubí
Alaior, Alaior, Menorca, Spain
Near Alaior on Menorca, two cyclopean stone tombs called navetas stand a few paces apart, their curved 'inverted boat' walls built around 1500-1000 BCE to hold the...
Naveta des Tudons
Ciutadella de Menorca, Ciutadella de Menorca, Menorca, Spain
Naveta des Tudons rises from open fields west of Ciutadella like an overturned ship carved from limestone — a Bronze Age collective tomb where more than a hundred people...
Parque Arqueológico do Solstício
Calçoene, Amapá, Brazil
On a hilltop above the Rego Grande river in Brazil's far north, 127 granite megaliths stand in a circle that has tracked solstices and equinoxes for up to two millennia....
Ses Roques Llises Dolmen
Alaior, Alaior, Menorca, Spain
Ses Roques Llises is a Talayotic-culture dolmen near Alaior, Menorca, built as a collective stone tomb around 2100-1600 BCE....
Skorba Prehistoric Site
Malta
Skorba is the most informative site in Malta for understanding how Neolithic people actually lived....
Ta' Ħaġrat Temples
Malta
Ta' Ħaġrat stands at the very beginning of the Maltese temple-building story — two megalithic structures raised from coralline limestone before metallurgy existed, before...
Key questions
Megalithic sacred-site questions
- What megalithic sacred sites are included?
- Megalithic sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 31 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these megalithic sites located?
- Major country clusters include France, Spain, Ireland, Malta, United Kingdom, Armenia.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Celtic and Prehistoric, Prehistoric, Talayotic Culture, Indigenous, Nature Spirituality, Neolithic.
- Can I view megalithic 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.