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Carnac at france-for-visitors.com (includes map) Online photo exhibition of the Carnac region's megaliths includes the giant menhir of Loqmariaquer, and marked and inscribed stones; An amateur's guide to visiting the Carnac stones by car; The megaliths of Carnac: Dolmen / passage graves – comprehensive list of dolmens in area with photos.
Carnac is renowned for the Carnac stones – one of the most extensive Neolithic menhir collections in the world – as well as its beaches, which are popular with tourists. Located on a narrow peninsula halfway between the medieval town Vannes and the seaside resort Quiberon , Carnac is split into two centres: Carnac-Ville and Carnac-Plage ...
Property names as submitted by France and year of inscription on Tentative List. Translation of site names provided in italics for reference purposes; official translation of site name proposed only once site is put forward for consideration on World Heritage List. Sites mégalithiques de Carnac, 1996. Carnac megalithic sites
The Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari (around 300 BC). Abritus; Aleksandrovo ancient tomb; Aquae Calidae; Armira (Roman villa) Augusta Trayana (Roman ruins of modern Stara Zagora); Bacho Kiro cave
The French ministry of culture lists the following numbers of megalithic monuments: Menhirs: 1172 Dolmen: 1349 Carnac stones, Brittany; Mégalithes du causse de Blandas [], over 80 megaliths exist on the Blandas plateau in the Massif Central ( Gard department) in southern France.
Locations in France include several in Brittany (two on the island of Er Lannic and two more suggested at Carnac), several in the south of France on the Causse de Blandas [14] [15] in the Cevennes, in the Pyrenees, [16] and in the Alps (e.g. the Petit Saint Bernard). One notable stone circle is in the Italian Alps. [17]
Each set is organised with the tallest stones at the western end and shorter ones at the eastern end. Some end with a semicircular cromlech, but many have since fallen or been destroyed. [17] The second largest concentration of menhirs in France is at the Cham des Bondons, which is located on high open limestone plain in the granitic Cévennes.
The Morbihan is one of the original 83 departments created on 4 March 1790 during the French Revolution.It was created from a part of the Duchy of Brittany.. In 1945, cadets from École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, France's foremost military academy for officers, were relocated to Camp Coëtquidan (Camp de Coëtquidan) in Guer.