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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Dhananjay Khadilkar

Celebrating the beauty and mystery of Carnac’s ancient megaliths

The megaliths of Carnac have been granted the Unesco World Heritage status © RFI

Some 500 kilometres west of Paris, on Brittany’s Atlantic coast, stand the mysterious prehistoric stone alignments of Morbihan – now on Unesco's World Heritage list. RFI went to see why the ancient site still casts a spell on visitors.

The best known structures are in the town of Carnac, where nearly 3,600 stones stretch in long rows across six kilometres of land. They were erected about 7,000 years ago.

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