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France's Carnac Stones Vie for UNESCO World Heritage List Spot
MORBIHAN, BRITTANY, JUL 12 – The recognition highlights the cultural and historical significance of these sites, promoting their preservation and global awareness of European heritage.
- On July 12, 2025, UNESCO added the Carnac stone alignments along with the surrounding Morbihan banks in western France to its World Heritage List.
- This inclusion followed recognition of the megaliths as exceptional evidence of Neolithic communities' technical skills and symbolic landscape construction.
- The site covers 1,000 square kilometers with over 550 monuments, including the famous Carnac alignments of long straight menhir avenues.
- UNESCO stated the megaliths demonstrate how Neolithic people could "extract, transport, and manipulate monumental stones" creating a space revealing their environmental relationship.
- Carnac's heritage listing raises the number of French sites to 54 and is expected to boost tourism and preserve funding for the site visited by nearly 300,000 people annually.
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Twelve sites, in total, were listed on Saturday, July 12, on the UNESCO World Heritage List alongside the megaliths of Carnac and the banks of Morbihan, the only French candidate for this 47th session of the World Heritage Committee.
French prehistoric site makes UNESCO world heritage list
The UN’s cultural organization on Saturday included the megaliths of Carnac and the banks of Morbihan, a vast area including famous alignments of menhirs in western France, on its World Heritage List. Erected over more than two millennia during the Neolithic period, they cover an area of 1,000 km² with more than 550 monuments spread across the Morbihan region. READ: Most world heritage sites at risk of drought or flooding: UNESCO Among them are …
Built for more than two millennia during the Neolithic period, they extend over a territory of 1,000 km2 with more than 550 monuments distributed in 28 municipalities of Morbihan.
The megaliths of Carnac and the banks of Morbihan, a vast group comprising the famous menhir alignments, 6,000 years old, were ranked Saturday 12 July by UNESCO World Heritage, becoming the first Breton site to join the prestigious list.
The megaliths of Carnac and the banks of Morbihan join the UNESCO World Heritage Site. This is the first place entirely Breton to be inscribed on the list. France now has 54 World Heritage Sites. - The megaliths of Carnac registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (Traditions and Heritage).
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