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Tour De France

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Dolmen

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Languedoc-Rousillon Region

• Gallardet – has a large “oven door” entrance
• Coste-Rouge issaid to be the most famous dolmen in the world
• The Grand Dolmen du Ferrussac + Petit Dolmen du Ferrussac has the appearance of a double decker dolmen, Coste-Caude dolmen is another double decker
• Planas was right next to the stone circles
• Cazarils Oval Tombs really look like they were for burial purposes and one of them has a stone with an interesting carving on it. There is also a tiny dolmen with a corridor and within a mound.

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A film about the Gallardet Dolmen

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Lot Region

• La Pierre Martine with a huge thick capstone measuring 7m x 2m x 50cm and around 10 tonnes. It also seems very flat, looking across the top of it you can imagine doing your ironing on it.
• 100m from Pierre Martine is Rougié dolmen – about 3m long and also with a capstone broken into two pieces.
• Dolmen de Martignes and Custalou we visited because they were some of the coolest looking in the area close to where Rich was living and Tour-de-Faure dolmen was actually in his village so he chose this as his stone to hug for our ‘Hug a stone campaign’.

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Standing Stones / Menhirs

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• Ginestous said to be the most magnificent menhir in the world
• Grande Menhir du Juoilles a huge 5m tall standing stone with maybe 3 or 4 metres used to in bed it in the ground
• Belinac a3.5m tall, 30 cm thick standing stone leaning at an angle
• Cham des Bondons an area we visited known as The Cham des Bondons – the second largest collection of menhirs (after the simply magnificent Carnac)

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You can view our film – Standing Stones

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You can view our film – Stone Circles in France

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Spheres

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The most famous spheres from around the world are found in Bosnia, Mexico and Costa Rica but on a sandstone plateau above the village of Saint-André-de-Rosans in the Hautes-Alpes region there appears to be several hundred. They are far from the regions we had chosen to visit but whilst travelling close to Lodeve we found out about these possible stone spheres and there was no way we were going to miss out on seeing them. It was a beautiful place well worth strolling around.

For more information about St Andre de Rosans – http://irna.lautre.net/Stone-balls-in-France-too.html

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You can view our film – Stone Spheres in France

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Pyramid Tour of Italy

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We intended to drive from France to Bosnia to film The Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids but thanks to www.europeanpyramids.eu we discovered that Italy has a host of potential pyramids and we thought we would investigate that instead. Rich and Mick hired a car to act as their sleeping quarters and transport as they drove over 3500km to take a look at these sites for themselves. Interestingly they seem to fall along a line running from north to south through the centre of Italy so we wonder whether this connects with the global telluric energy grid. We also visited some Etruscan ruins close to Rome and some fascinating ancient walkways which have been carved out of the rock.

 

Santa Agata del Goti

This hill has the most convincing shape of all the hills/pyramids we saw. The faces are orientated in relation to the cardinal points and there have also been stone spheres discovered in the area.

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Piediluco

Not far from Terni overlooking Lago di Piediluco there are two hills either side of the lake that are suspiciously shaped. We videoed and photographed them both from a variety of angles including from the top of the castle that is built on top of one of these hills/pyramids. We left this area thinking that both hills/pyramids looked very much liked pyramids from certain angles but were less convincing from others, one is like a toblerone shape similar to Mother Earth in Bosnia. We also felt that just because they are not perfectly shaped like your convential pyramid didn’t rule them out being ancient structures of some kind, the mystery continues.   You can view our film –

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Pontassieve

Not far from Florence next to the town of Pontassieve there are 3 hills which are suspiciously shaped. Again they are very convincing from certain angles but less so from other angles, so much so that when we first arrived in the valley we struggled to work out which hills were supposed to be pyramids. This is because the hills in question appear to be very close to larger hills just behind them almost as if they are attached, again we don’t think this rules them out as being huge ancient structures. There is evidence of settlements in this area 25,000 years ago so it’s possible these were built or modified to be in the shape they are but without excavating we can only speculate.

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Montevecchia

There are possibly 9 hills in the area north of Milan in the Parco regionale di Montevecchia e della. The area is full of hills with a tiered structure, which is one of the reasons these are believed to be pyramids.  We were there on a cloudy day so couldn’t get many distant views, up close there are flattened tops, one of the hills/pyramids has a megalithic stone on top and there is a carinal point alignment with a slight offset. They argument is far more convincing with an aerial view as you can see a clear pyramidal shape but they would be very old with lots of sediment build up. This was one of the least convincing areas that we visited on our trip but we are still open-minded and look forward to more research and hopefully some excavation. – We have some footage so will release a film as soon as we get a chance but you can check out our photos or for more information the European pyramids website (http://www.european-pyramids.eu/wb/pages/european-pyramids/italy/montevecchia.php?lang=DE)

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Pyramid Monolith of Mt San Martino

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Rock Cut Tombs and Ancient Trackways

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