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Cromeleque dos Almendres —This Portuguese Stonehenge, dating from about 5500
B.C. , stands in the midst of cork trees down a dirt road that's a five-mile (20-minute) drive
west of Évora (take the main highway to Lisbon in the direction of Guadalupe, then fol-
low clear signposts to stones). If you're in a rush, skip the first signposted site (a lone
10-foot menhir) and continue to the second—95 rounded granite stones erected in the
shape of an oval. It's the largest megalithic monument in Iberia and one of the oldest in
Europe, some 2,000 years older than Stonehenge. Look closely at the stones; some have
raised carvings, barely visible, of circles and shapes resembling a shepherd's hook.
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