Stonehenge

covered with mystery, and Stonehenge itself is incredibly amazing.
Stonehenge is one of the most famous and popular architectural monuments of Great Britain. It attracts all people, from tourists to modern druids, esotericists.

not built in one day. In fact, the whole process consisted of several stages and took almost 2000 years. It started back in 3100 BC, when there were graves inside the ring of earth.
The first ring was made around 3000 BC and was completely wooden. Only 4000 years later, the builders began to fully use the stone. Most of the work falls on the period from 2640 to 2480 BC.
The first stone ring was made of "blue stones" - Bluestones. 80 stones measuring 9 meters and weighing 25 tons were delivered from Wales. To this day, we do not know exactly how the stones were transported.
The following rings were made in 2400 BC and are the largest and heaviest in the entire structure.

to one of them, the legendary sorcerer Merlin created an amazing structure overnight. Thus the magician paid homage to the king of the Britons, who had won a victory over the Saxons.
The second myth says that the concentric stone circles are the result of the devil's mischief. In an old English fairy tale it is written that he bought some stones from an Irish widow and played with them on the plain.

written mention of Stonehenge dates back to the 12th century
Visitors are not allowed to climb the rocks
An ordinary British citizen owned Stonehenge for three years (Stonehenge was the legal property of the British state for most of the last century, but would never have fallen into the hands of the government if not for the charity of Cecil Chubb. In 1915, a millionaire bought his wife Stonehenge as a gift for £ 6,600. His wife, however, did not like the gift and three years later Chubb presented Stonehenge to the state on the condition that the monument would be maintained unchanged and would be open to visitors.)