Looking east from the path at the windmill.
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Pano from the windmill. The alignments have been variously cut through down through the years by footpaths and roads.
The west end (beginning?) of the Kermario alignments.
Photo taken 29th October 2013. Stones as far as the eye can see on a lovely sunny October Breton day.
From the ruined windmill looking west along the Kermario rows to the now vanished Cromlech. Dolmen de Kermario is hidden behind the trees in the middle.
Sorry, a repost due to posting on wrong site.
From the ruined windmill, looking east.
Getting a bit stone blind.
Sorry, a repost due to posting on wrong site.
Tuesday 12 April 2005
Tuesday 12 April 2005
the stone rows are so impressive! And go on for ever...
Taken from on top of the ex-windmill
One of the only stones in the rows outside the fence.
Taken Summer 1996: The Kermario stones viewed from the (now demolished) Visitors’ Centre.
Taken Summer 1996: A gaggle of Kermario stones, with the Le Dolmen de Kermario just visible in the distance.
Taken Summer 1996: Captive stones at Kermario. We couldn’t get near them.
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Visited 16.09.23
The Alignements de Kermario were the most impressive of the Carnac Alignments due to the length of the stone rows and the impressive height of the megaliths forming the rows. Unfortunately I had to be content with external views of the stones as access was restricted. The best views were to be had from the Old Windmill platform.
The Kermario alignments are my favourite of these three road side alignments, they’ve got several things going for them, the dolmen in the corner of the field, the ruined windmill that’s been turned into a very effective look out point, eleven hundred meters of rows of megaliths, we shouldn’t call these stones because it doesn’t have the word mega in it. Then when you think your going stone blind, when your seeing stones every where and feeling punch drunk on the old stuff, you can take a break have a crepe and a beer and buy postcard or a porcelain dolmen. Then head back out into the utter nonsense that is the Carnac stone rows. Do make sure you take a look at the dolmen in the corner it shouldn’t be overlooked and the windmill ruin is definitely the best place to appreciate the megaliths.
At the end of the Kermario rows is the right turn that takes you to the Kercado tumulus. The mustest of sees.
We met the young and lovely Spaceship Mark in bright sunshine at the main car park by the Kermario alignments. His pockets were bulging with detailed maps and a much-loved copy of Burl’s ‘Megalithic Brittany’. Mark was living and working in a campsite literally just opposite the alignments. Now that would be a great place to have your hols!
The alignments are particularly complete here and consist of some really big, tall stones. We stopped to admire them and to see the Lann Mané dolmen which lies just next to them close to the road.
The alignments are not open for visitors to walk amongst during the summer months so we couldn’t actually get in. This didn’t spoil my enjoyment at all; a clear view unsullied by visitors was good enough for me.
It is IMPOSSIBLE not to be overwhelmed by the sheer scale and obsession of menhir erection here. It’s truly astonishing!
More than ten rows stretching for more than a kilomtere about 982 menhirs many re-erected by Zacharie Le Rouzic, only interupted by a couple of houses one of which is a shop selling yummy ice cream and a ruined windmill, which you can climb the stairs inside to get a good overview of the rows.
I first saw pictures of these rows when I was a child in a book of ancient wonders, and wanted to see them as much as any pyramid, they are indeed wonders .
Sites within 20km of Alignements de Kermario
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Dolmen de Kermario
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Tertre Tumulaire de Kermario
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Dolmen de Kerluir
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Menhir de Kerluir
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Tumulus de Kercado
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Géant du Manio
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Quadrilataire de Manio
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Tumulus de St Michel
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Cromlech de Kerlescan Ouest
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Alignements de Ménec
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Cromlech de Kerlescan Nord
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Alignements de Kerlescan
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Dolmen du Cruz Moquen
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Dolmen de Kerlescan
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Menhir de Crifol
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Cromlech de Ménec
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Alignements de Petit-Ménec
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Dolmen de Nauterio
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Dolmen de Beaumer
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Dolmen de Kervilor Mané-Bras
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Cromlech de Crucuny
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Dolmen de Mané-Brisil
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Mané Keriavel
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Tumulus de Crucuny
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Mané Roularde
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Dolmens de Mane Kerioned
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Er-Roc’h-Feutet
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Dolmen de Kluder-Yer
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Dolmen et Menhir de Carnac-Plage
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Dolmen de Runesto
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Dolmen de la Madeleine
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Dolmen de Mané Rohr
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Menhir de Kerlagade
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Menhir de Kerlagade
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Dolmen de Kergavat
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Dolmen de Kerroc’h
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Luffang
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Dolmen du Cosquer
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Dolmens de Rondossec
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Dolmen de Kervehennec
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Dolmens de Parc Gueren
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Les Trois Menhirs du Champ
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Alignements de Vieux Moulin
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Dolmens de Quéric la Lande
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Dolmen de Mané Canaplaye S
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Dolmen de Mané Canaplaye N
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Dolmen de Kernevé
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Crucuno Rectangle
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Alignements de St Barbe
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Dolmen de Kergazec
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Dolmen de Kermané
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Menhir de Kerangoff
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Dolmen de Mané Croc’h
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Dolmen de Crucuno
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Coët-er-Bei
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Dolmens de Kerran
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Mané Bogad
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Mané Braz
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Menhirs de Kerjean
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Dolmen de Kercadoret
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Alignements de Kerzerho
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Dolmen de St-Pierre Loperec
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Dolmen de Botlann
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Kerlud
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Mane Lud
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Er-Grah
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Table des Marchants
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Dolmen de Pointe Er Hourél
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Grand Menhir Brise
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Tumulus de Rocher
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Mané Rutuel
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Bronzo
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Les Pierres Plats
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Dolmen de Roh-an-Aod
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Dolmen de Kerclément
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Alignements de Moulin de St Pierre
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Mane-Er-Hrouek
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Cromlech de Kerbourgnec
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Dolmen des Sept Saints
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Dolmen de Toulvern
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Dolmen du Port Blanc
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Menhir de Kerpenhir
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Dolmen de Kerlutu
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Dolmens de Kerhuen
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Gavr’inis
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Dolmen de Kerguerhen
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Er Lannic
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Quiberon Menhir
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Menhirs de Mané-Meur
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Menhirs Beg-er-Goalennec
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Allee Couverte de Grah-Niol
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Conguel Dolmen
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Le Petit Mont
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Pointe de la Guérite
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Tumulus de Tumiac
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Menhir de Kermaillard
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