The Alignments of Carnac, part IV !!!

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Now this is a heavy subject and I won’t claim to know it well but live nearby so visit several times for the learning curve! The Alignments of Carnac are world famous even Unesco world heritage site and I am just 25 km or 12 miles from them ! This is in my beautiful Morbihan dept 56 of my lovely Bretagne and in my belle France, I have written before plenty of detail and history so will concentrate on the newer pictures shown here.  Therefore, here is my take again on the Alignments of Carnac, part IV !!!  Hope you enjoy the post as I.

Carnac megaliths Le Menec passing rue de menec jun23

The alignments of Carnac  are an exceptional megalithic  alignments located in the town’s limits of Carnac. They are the most famous and most impressive megalithic ensembles of this period with nearly 4 000 stones lifted around 4500 years BC. The alignments are however accessible to the public in high season through the visits conferences with a guide proposed by the Maison des Mégalithes,  and are on open access walking by them .  They include about 2 733 menhirs, probably largely below what existed in the Neolithic era.

Carnac maison des megaliths front rue de menec jun23

The Le Menec site is the easiest to access. It faces the House of Megaliths, a reception and information center for the alignments. Its spacious parking lot and the location of the museum are not the only reasons for its success! It is the site with the most menhirs. With the 2nd major site Kermario, the whole count nearly 3000 megaliths over 4 km !

Carnac megaliths le menec side passing rue de menec jun23

The unique Menhirs of Carnac site: http://www.menhirs-carnac.fr/en/

The city of Carnac on the megaliths: https://www.carnac.fr/Territoire-d-exception/Capitale-des-Megalithes

The Carnac tourist office on the megaliths: https://www.carnactourism.co.uk/discover-carnac/standing-stones/megaliths-carnac

The local Bay of Quiberon tourist office on the Carnac megaliths: https://www.baiedequiberon.co.uk/megalithic-sites-of-carnac

There you go folks, always misterious to past by here and see all those rows of stones ! You need to see them at least once in your lifetime ; worth the visit. Carnac ,however, is a lot more than stones, see my many posts on the town in my blog, Again, hope you enjoy the post  on the Alignments of Carnac, part IV !!! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

 

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

3 thoughts on “The Alignments of Carnac, part IV !!!”

    2. I had given the definition in my initial posts but here it is again fyi. (breton menhir, de men, pierre, et hir, long) A menhir is an upright stone, planted vertically. It is one of the characteristic forms of megalithism

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