The Xerez Cromlech

From the photographer: “This is one of the places that made me travel all the way through our country with an insane heat wave. This cromlech made of 55 menhirs is thought to be older than the Stonehenge, from the 3rd or 4rd century BC, so, it was composed by ancient people around 6000-7000 years, just imagine the knowledge they would have had to place these -lightweight- stones in place… However, the monument was abandoned and only found in 1969 when the Alqueva Dam was being constructed, and was moved to the actual place with what is thought to be the original alignment. Shot from the darkest skies of Portugal, in Monsaraz, Dark Sky Reserve.”