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Audio Guide Carnac
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Carnac is a small Breton town that happens to contain the largest concentration of prehistoric standing stones on Earth. More than 3,000 menhirs spread across the landscape in parallel rows, raised by Neolithic communities between roughly 4800 and 3500 BCE, and nobody has yet agreed on exactly why. Beyond the stone rows, the town holds dolmens, tumuli, and a prehistory museum built around one archaeologist's obsession.
20+ researched places in the app
Yes. Parroo is a self-guided audio guide for Carnac: 20 researched places, from Ménec Alignments to Saint-Michel Tumulus and Carnac Prehistory Museum, each with a short summary, a full article, and a roughly three-minute audio story in German, English, and French. Buy once, no subscription, no booking. Start whenever you like.
Audio sample: Ménec Alignments
Carnac
Places researched in this city
A selection of the 20 places we've researched in this city. The full set is in the Parroo app.
- Megalithic alignments
- Neolithic tumuli
- Passage dolmens
- Prehistoric museum
- Coastal nature
- Renaissance church
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Ménec Alignments
Eleven parallel rows of up to 1,100 menhirs stretch for 1,160 metres through the Carnac countryside, raised over a span of more than a thousand years between 4800 and 3500 BCE. No other site on Earth assembles prehistoric standing stones at this scale, and their purpose remains genuinely unresolved.
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Saint-Michel Tumulus
The largest Neolithic barrow in continental Europe sits right in the middle of Carnac, 125 metres long and 10 metres high, built in the mid-5th millennium BCE as an elite burial site. A medieval chapel was later placed on top, folding thousands of years of belief into a single mound.
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Carnac Prehistory Museum
Scottish archaeologist James Miln spent his later years excavating the Carnac monuments and died in 1881 leaving a collection that became this museum the following year. It now holds 350,000 artifacts covering 450,000 years of human presence, drawn from more than 200 sites.
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Saint-Cornély Church
The church's 40-metre bell tower went up in 1639 and the building grew around it over the next century, replacing an older Romanesque structure that could no longer hold the town. Saint Cornély is the patron of horned animals, and the annual Pardon held in his name still brings a blessing of livestock to the square outside.
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Kermario Alignments
Nearly 1,000 menhirs in ten parallel rows extend for 1,100 metres just east of Ménec, with some stones topping 3 metres. Archaeological dating ties the site's construction partly to the Manio tumulus, which the alignments physically overlie, giving researchers a rare fixed chronological anchor.
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Manio Giant
At 6.50 metres, this is the tallest surviving menhir in Carnac, standing slightly apart from the main alignments in a wooded clearing alongside the Quadrilatère du Manio. Local tradition holds that balancing a stone on it grants a wish, a piece of folklore that attached itself to a granite block placed here around 5,000 years ago.
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Mané-Kerioned Dolmens
The name translates loosely as the mound of the goblins, and the Breton folklore stuck because three passage graves share a single cairn 40 metres wide, an unusual arrangement first excavated in 1866. The chambers still carry engraved shields and zigzag motifs cut into the granite orthostats.
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20 researched places, from the Ménec Alignments and the Saint-Michel Tumulus to lesser-known spots like the Mané-Kerioned Dolmens. Each one has a short summary, a full article, and a ~3-minute audio story.
Yes. Every place has a ~3-minute audio story, written from the perspective of a guide standing next to you and produced with premium narration, not the article read aloud.
German, English, and French. Pick whichever you'd rather read or listen in.
No booking, no signup. It's a self-guided walk you start whenever you like. You do need a connection for now to stream the audio and load articles; offline support is something we're still building.
A one-time €4.99 for the whole city, no subscription and no recurring cost. You buy Carnac once and keep access to all 20 places with text and audio.
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Updated: 2026-09-25