Ales stenar - Ystad Sweden

"Between the sea and heavens cants the coast there Ale raised a giant ship of stones, recumbent where the glare of light dispersed, in the darkened stillness of the forms reconciles, a saga obscured shrouded to the tones of the Baltic, a memorial whose secret alone it conceals."
-- Anders Osterling (translated)

On the Kaseberga ridge above the southern Swedish coast, Ales stenar attracts nearly three-quarters of a million visitors each year. But what is Ales stenar? We do know it is a 67 meter long ship-shaped monument of 59 granite stones, some weighing two tons.

Four stones in the center align near N-S and E-W and form a straight line with the sunrise on the summer solstice. The largest sundial on the Skåne coast? Visit Ales Stenar and draw your own conclusions.

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