Carnac means "place where there are mounds of stone." The city owes its fame to the famous alignments of stones dating back to prehistoric times. They expect several thousand menhirs, the largest measuring 4 meters high. They are divided into several sites. The whole is extremely impressive! To truly understand the historic significance of the alignment of Carnac, you should definitely visit the Museum of Prehistory. It presents, in a simple and clear, the data available to us to try to explain why these monuments dating back thousands of years before our era.

Carnac is also a very pleasant resort with sandy beaches and its tourism-related activities. It is also a town with a rich past, grouped around its church of the seventeenth century, one of the most beautiful Renaissance of Brittany.

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Around Carnac, other prehistoric remains worth the dolmen-Kérioned Mane, the dolmen Keriaval and Tumulus of Kercado.

Finally going to find the greatest menhir in the world, that of Locmariaquer, now lying. From the time of its magnificence, it was more than 20 metres high and weighed 350 tonnes.

We know he has been led to this place. It has been calculated that for the drag with trunks of trees, it took a force that can be provided by 1,200 men and 250 oxen, it is easy to imagine the importance of these monuments for the people of the time. Why? Mystery ...