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Les Demoiselles Piquées - information and guide

Site Type:
Standing Stones
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Last Visit:
Sunday 2nd May 2010
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Latitude: 47.7645 Longitude: -1.9828
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Either park in St. Just and walk along the Rue de l'Abbe Corbe until a footpath over the heath becomes visible to the right, or park in the small car park located in the woods near the village to the west. A footpath leads south from there to the stones. I didn't find the signposting particularly helpful.

Les Demoiselles Piquées ('the worm-eaten women') is a small cluster of menhirs forming part of the Saint Just complex. Two of the four stones remain standing, with two fallen off to the east. The largest is around three metres tall. The stones are composed of quartz rock.

According to legend, Les Demoiselles Piquées were petrified by God for dancing on the moors on a Sunday rather than attending church.

These are big, impressive megaliths, quite different to the Moulin de Cojoux alignment a short distance away. Those stones are slender and knife-like, whereas these are bulky and squat.