Historic sites in Bretagne, France

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Cairn de Barnenez

Carantec, Finistère

One of the oldest monuments in the world: a long stepped mound of stone built around 4,500 BC, older than the pyramids of Egypt, on a headland above …

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Carnac standing stones

Carnac, Morbihan

More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones, set up in long rows over 4 km of countryside by people living here between about 4500 and 3300 BC.

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Locmariaquer megaliths

Locmariaquer, Morbihan

A remarkable group of Neolithic monuments near the Gulf of Morbihan: the Great Broken Menhir of Er Grah, once over 20 metres tall and the largest sta…

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Saint-Malo ramparts

Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine

Saint-Malo, the walled corsair city on the Brittany coast, was largely rebuilt after the Second World War, and its granite ramparts make a complete w…