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Allée couverte de Pors Poulhan

On a windswept plateau edge above the Bay of Audierne, in far western Brittany, the Allée couverte de Pors Poulhan opens like a stone corridor laid down around five and a half thousand years ago. Also called Menez Korriged, the “Hill of the Korrigans,” this is a gallery grave of the Late Neolithic (roughly 3300–2800 BC), and one of the largest and most architecturally accomplished megalithic tombs in the Finistère. Standing at its narrow doorway, you look straight down a passage built from sixteen towering granite-pillar slabs and capped by enormous horizontal roof stones — a chamber made to hold the dead and impress the living. What makes the place worth the detour is the combination of monument and setting. It crowns the cliff-rim overlooking the little sheltered inlet of Pors Poulhan and the open ocean beyond, and it belongs to a whole archaeological cluster — with the Souc’h dolmen necropolis and the prehistoric Menez Dregan cave nearby, plus a modern interpretation centre and a coastal trail that lets you read the landscape as a Stone Age coastline rather than a single curiosity. Access is free and open, and the sea air and gorse do the rest.