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[magdadh, 18/10/2011] The megalithic menhirs of Brittany are world-famous: quite remarkable really, for stone structures of seemingly no use whatsoever. But then it might be this mystery that is the main attraction.
Nobody knows, really, who, and especially why constructed these gigantic even by modern standards arrangements. Carnac megaliths number over 3,000 stones, scattered all around the area in the form of alignments (long avenues of parallel rows of standing stones), dolmens (above-ground tombs made of stone), tumuli (earthen mounds) and individual menhirs (standing stones).
Leaving aside the speculati
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[weetoon, 25/09/2006] Carnac, in Brittany, is one of the high places of megalithic culture. The great standing stone alignments are to Brittany what Stonehenge is to prehistoric England. I first visited this as a very young child and there is somewhere a picture of me sitting on a megalith aged about four. Nowadays though, a visit to Carnac is rather different, as the menhirs (a Breton word for standing stone) cannot be approached most of the time, due to the huge numbers of visitors to this site who had started to endanger the soil around the monuments.
The Morbihan area is particularly rich in megalithic struc
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