Brittany is massively famous for its ROCKS ... partly thanks to Obelix and his menhir fixation of course.
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| He's been busy |
But the megaliths are actually Neolithic - dating to approximately the 5th millennium BCE. The most famous area for Big Stones is the village of Carnac, which has over 3000 of the things in loooooooong long rows:
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| Srsly, Obelix - what were you thinking of? |
and dolmens
are in some ways more fun though ...
Many have strange carving on the interior rock-faces:
This is supposedly a goddess-figure (I'm not sure how they decided that):
They've been the object of eager tourists for thousands of years...
So rock on, Brittany - Rock ON :-)
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