Menhir of Outeiro

Local nameMenir do Outeiro
LocationReguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal

The Menhir of Outeiro, also known as the Penedo Comprido, is a megalith located midway between the villages of Outeiro and Barrada near the municipality of Reguengos de Monsaraz, in the district of Évora, in the Alentejo region of Portugal. It is a few kilometers from the Portuguese-Spanish-border. The stone was discovered on its side in 1969 by Henrique Leonor Pina and José Pires Gonçalves and, on the initiative of Gonçalves, was raised again around 1970. The menhir was classified as a Portuguese National Monument in 1971.

The granite monolith is 5.6 meters high with an average diameter of one meter, and weighs an estimated 8 tonnes. It is the second largest in Portugal. The top has a hollow of 30 cm in diameter, which is believed to represent a urethra, thus giving rise to the understanding that the megalith symbolizes a phallus.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir_of_Outeiro

Address (Unnamed Road), 7200, Portugal

Coordinates 38°28'13.393" N -7°23'37.032" E

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