carnac megalithic

The first full afternoon my brother was here, we drove to Carnac. It is one of three sites of megalithic stones in Brittany. There are more than 3,000 standing stones erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany. It's the largest collection in the world believed to be erected during the Neolithic period, some being as old as 4500 BC.

Unfortunately, you can't walk amongst them anymore unless you pay for a tour but there is a path around the area that allows some pretty great views. There are modern myths of why the stones stand in perfect line: one being that they were soldiers in search of Pope Cornelius and he turned them to stone. The locals have other Breton myths.