A resource if you are interested in prehistory of any of the caminos

VNwalking

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• Aug 8, 2020

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Or at home, for that matter.
If you want to see what you might encounter on your camino or your walk at home of stone circles, menhir, cave paintings, castos, Roman stuff, etc...have a look. (I learned I walked right past a cave with paleotithic paintings in Astigarraga on the Vasco. Sigh.)

Text Browse by Country, Region and Type of Site : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

The page the link takes you to is the Pais Vasco around San Sebasitan/Bilbao, but you can find each region of Spain, and information from many other countries besides. Looking at places I know, I can tell that it's not complete, but it looks like it is possible to join and add information, if you know of a site that is not included.

 

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• Aug 8, 2020

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Thank you for that great information @VNwalking !

 

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• Aug 8, 2020

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used it lots of times. some regions are quite thorough, some not so. for example, there is an (unofficial and the only one known so far) stone circle in the alps below the summit of krn in slovenia.
I did notice that there are very little sites on or very close to camino francés. this is a bit surprising.

 

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caminka said:

I did notice that there are very little sites on or very close to camino francés. this is a bit surprising.

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Not all of them are there (the menhirs at Cirauqui arent there, for example). So it may just be an artifact of sampling.

 

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VNwalking said:

Not all of them are there (the menhirs at Cirauqui arent there, for example). So it may just be an artifact of sampling.

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there are menhirs at cirauqui? I didn't know that!

 

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caminka said:

there are menhirs at cirauqui? I didn't know that!

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found this blog. looks really cool, and that old road!

 

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• Aug 9, 2020

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caminka said:

there are menhirs at cirauqui? I didn't know that!

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On the hill to the left as you come to the village.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/attachments/img_4352-jpg.80373/

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/attachments/stones-jpg.80418/

 

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VNwalking said:

On the hill to the left as you come to the village.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/attachments/img_4352-jpg.80373/

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/attachments/stones-jpg.80418/

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ah, you mean these! I didn't think these were real prehistoric menhirs, more like a modern take on it?