Things to see and do Essé

La Roche-aux-fées is one of the most impressive megaliths in France. It is a funerary monument dating from the Neolithic period. The nearest quarry being 4 km away, the hypothesis is that these enormous stones were brought in with wooden rollers. On an alley 20 meters long and 4 meters wide, about forty blocks of red schist, the heaviest of which weighs 45 tons, form a vestibule 1.20 meters high and a room divided into 4 by projecting blocks. Legend has it that the stones fell from the fairies' apron.