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Erdeven / Crucuno
This is a typical small country town which wouldn´t be of any particular interest if it weren´t for the megalithic monuments nearby. He town itself has a nice old church and a handful of bars and restaurants and a few holiday houses to rent nearby.
The reason to visit it lies just outside town on the road heading to Plouharnel, which cuts right through a field of menhirs, the Alignements de Kerzérho. There is a parking right in front of it which gives direct access to a football field sized area with long rows of man-sized menhirs. It is one of the few larger sites with no access restrictions and it is quite an experience to walk through these monuments particularly during early morning and late afternoon light. Please make sure to minimize the impact of your visit on the fragile nature and especially do not climb the menhirs.
North of that field a path leads in between some bushes and low trees to more menhirs in a small wood. Do not miss this part of the site as it hosts some of the biggest and most fantastically formed stones. The path turns east after a while and leads along another vast assembly of lower standing stones within the wood. Keep following it past a field and into the larger wood further north. Remnants of alignments can be found again – it looks like the site has been several kilometers long – and, after about 3 kilometers of walking a dolmen lies within the wood not far from the country road.
What might seem like a short visit at the main field can easily turn into a two-hours walk that never gets boring. If you want to extend this take a bicycle and go for a ride deep into the forest and follow the stones in a half-circle all the way to Carnac.
Following the country road to Plouharnel you reach a roundabout. If you turn east from here, you pass an ancient cross at a field and soon reach the small settlement of Crucuno. Right in the middle of the settlement you find a picture-perfect dolmen presumably right out of an Asterix book. Very well worth the short detour.
For more impressions check the galleries from Crucuno and Kerzérho.
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