Carnac and Le Calvaire – by Gary

 

Carnac
Carnac is a Mesolithic (10,000 to 5,000 BC) and Neolithic (5,000 to 2,000 BC) cultural site, a sort of French Stonehenge, featuring huge stone alignments and burial mounds.  It was impressive, but our spoilt children reckon it wasn’t a patch on Stonehenge.

Some of the rocks are large, weighing several tons. 

And just like at Avebury, there are small villages and scattered farm houses standing in the midst of these ancient rocks.

The alignments are extensive, extending for several kilometres.

At Carnac we have our first taste of the windswept Atlantic coast – even on a calm day like this the low grey sky and rock strewn shore-line gives it a forbidding edge.

Le Calvaire
I couldn’t even get Vicki and the kids out of the car for this one (it was a cold, wet early morning) – but I loved it.  A tiny little village, barely a speck on our road map, but such Christian ardour.

This is the tiny little church at Le Calvaire, it is set in a large park.

And in the park are a series of life size sculptures presenting the 14 Stations of the Cross.

They are beautifully done!

Quite extraordinary!

I reckon the detailing in these works is impressive.

The hill of Calvary in relation to the church.

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