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This small but gorgeous monument, the Cromeleque do Vale d'El Rei, is almost completely unknown. It's one of the few stone circles/enclosures still standing in Portugal, and is a perfect, complete horseshoe-shape facing East. It's on private land, and closed off to the public, so if you want to visit, you'll need to watch my video:
youtube.com/watch?v=OFNVe69twJ0

“People who were taken to ancient places as children often have fuzzy old photos of themselves at the sites. Such pictures increase in power as the years go by. The people who took us pass away, and we ourselves grow up and change, but the stones stay the same.”

Peter Ross goes in search of a standing stone.

Peter Ross’s Upon a White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain & Ireland is published by Headline

theguardian.com/travel/2025/se

The Guardian · ‘A tantalising mystery’: could I find the standing stone on a Scottish island from a childhood photo?By Peter Ross