Menhir de Bréau

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The Menhir de Bréau, also known as Pierre qui tourne du Moulin Neuf or La Pierre à Vinegar, is a menhir located at Fief-Sauvin, in the French department of Maine-et-Loire.

Description: The menhir is located a short distance from the left bank of the Evre. He's in greenish shale, precambrian, quartz infiltrated. Its height varies between 3.30 m and 3.50 m given the slope of the terrain. Seen from the front, the two sides meet slightly to form a wide rounded at the top. Seen from the west side, on its flat, it seems to end in point. The building was said to have been the subject of an ancient excavation which revealed a setting with bricks of Roman era. On the other bank of the Evre, on the commune of Beaupréau once stood the Pierre Aubrée (Obrée, Au Bré), a granite menhir of which only the buried part remains, of an average diameter of 1.50 meters.

Folklore: According to tradition, the menhir turns at the twelve strokes of midnight. The stone would smell vinegar.