La Roche Aux Fées

Some 30 km south of Renne (near the village of Essé), La Roche-Aux-Fées is by far the most impressive "Dolmen" of Brittany. It was built some 4500 years ago, at the end of the neolithic period. Such monuments were probably used for funeral rites and/or wider religious purpose.

The Dolmen is built of purple-colored schist whose nearest outcrop is located in the Forêt du Theil, a wood 5 km away. Most of these pieces of stone weight over 40 tons.