Entrance ticket to Stonehenge

At the designated time, you will start your journey at the designated meeting point to begin our journey to Stonehenge. Dating back over 5000 years, archaeologists continue to debate theories regarding its purpose and significance.

What you can see are the substantial remnants of the last in a sequence of such monuments erected between circa 3000 BC and 1600 BC. Each monument was a circular structure, aligned with the rising of the sun at the midsummer solstice.

There has always been intense debate over what purpose Stonehenge served. Certainly, it was the focal point in a landscape filled with prehistoric ceremonial structures. It also represented an enormous investment of labor and time.

A huge effort and great organization were needed to carry the stones tens, and sometimes hundreds, of miles by land and water and then to shape and raise them. Only a sophisticated society could have mustered such a large workforce and the design and construction skills necessary to produce Stonehenge and its surrounding monuments.

Stonehenge's orientation concerning the rising and setting sun has always been one of its most remarkable features. Whether this was because its builders came from a sun-worshiping culture or because, as some scholars have asserted, the circle and its banks were part of a huge astronomical calendar remains a mystery.

What cannot be denied is the ingenuity of the builders of Stonehenge. With only very basic at their disposal, they shaped the stones and formed the mortises and tenons that linked uprights to lintels. Using antlers and bones, they dug the pits to hold the stones and made the banks and ditches that enclosed them.

Greca Tip: Several excavations carried out over the past few decades have led archaeologists and historians to believe that Stonehenge was originally a cemetery.