I just got home from for a trip to Italy and of course I've brought a few new cards to my collection, not all from Italy, though. In Brescia I found a book fair and guess what I found there?! A box with cards. This was the perfect way to end this trip and the best of all is that I didn't have to pay for them, they're free!! Yay. I found a few interresting cards from hard to get countries, UNESCO sites, incluing cards from my missing list. I've the list saved in my head and when I saw this card, read that it was from Carnac, immediately knew it was from a French site classified this year. Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of Morbihan, in Brittany, features a dense concentration of megalithic structures built during the Neolithic period (c. 5000–2300 BCE).
7000 years old, the megalithic alignments of Carnac are world famous and are one of the most important centres of European prehistory in existence. The singularity of the Carnac megaliths is their extrordinary alignments and their sheer numbers, this is the largest gathering of standing stones of this type in the world.
The stones are placed in descending order and each alignment ends on a megalithic stone circle, some more visible than others.
Why were these stones erected and aligned? There are many theories that attempt to explain the origin of the alignments, including that they were religious monuments, related to the worship of the moon or sun, or to the farming calender. One legend even has it that they were a Roman army turned into stone! But their origin continues to be a mystery. The remains of this prehistoric period suggest, however, that they had a sacred and funereal function.
The stones are placed in descending order and each alignment ends on a megalithic stone circle, some more visible than others.
Why were these stones erected and aligned? There are many theories that attempt to explain the origin of the alignments, including that they were religious monuments, related to the worship of the moon or sun, or to the farming calender. One legend even has it that they were a Roman army turned into stone! But their origin continues to be a mystery. The remains of this prehistoric period suggest, however, that they had a sacred and funereal function.
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Sites are divided into three fields of menhirs. The site of Ménec is located on the West of Carnac. It is the starting point of sites, where is the “Maison des Mégalithes”, reception and information centre of the megalithic sites.
This group is constituted of 1050 stones lined up on 11 queues. A series of more or less parallel queues where megaliths are rather regularly spaced out. Menec site stretches over 1 km and is the most representative group of menhirs.
The site starts with a cromlech composed of 71 blocks, where the village of Ménec was built. Toul Chignan is east of the field of Ménec and collides with a surrounding wall. - in: https://www.carnactourism.co.uk
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