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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.
The Carnac stones were erected during the Neolithic period which lasted from around 4500 BC until 2000 BC. The precise date of the stones is difficult to ascertain as little dateable material has been found beneath them, but the site's main phase of activity is commonly attributed to c. 3300 BC.
Drombeg stone circle, at the winter solstice, the sun sets into a v formed by two distant overlapping hills and makes an alignment with the altar stone and the two main uprights. Due to the nature of the site and the western hills, local mid-winter sunset is c. 15:50. [citation needed] Beltany stone circle
The Carnac stones. Brittany has been inhabited by humans since the Lower Palaeolithic. This population was scarce and very similar to the other Neanderthals found in the whole of Western Europe. Their only original feature was a distinct culture, called "Colombanian". [19] One of the oldest hearths in the world has been found in Plouhinec ...
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.
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.
Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret: Normandy: 20th century cultural 2005 - Built from 1945–1964 by the Atelier de Reconstruction du Havre d'Auguste Perret [25] 80 Mont Saint-Michel and its Bay Normandy: cultural 1979 2007 [26] 160 Palace and Park of Fontainebleau: Île-de-France: cultural 1981 - [27] 83 Palace and Park of Versailles ...
al-Rustaq, al-multi-period settlement and burial area; al-Salayli, multi-period burial and metal-producing site; al-Saruj Late Iron Age grave; al-Shariq 2 trilith site; al-Wasit Late Bronze Age settlement and burial area; Amla/al-Fuwaydah Pre-Islamic recent period burial ground; Bandar Jissa 1 Late Iron Age cemetery; Bawshar settlement and ...