Stonehenge Tickets

This 5,000-year-old monument, located in the heart of a World Heritage Site, is shrouded in mystery. The purpose of Stonehenge has been hotly debated, and it stands as the focal point in a landscape filled with prehistoric ritual architecture, representing an immense investment of labor and time. Tremendous effort and strong organization were required to transport these stones tens, sometimes hundreds, of miles by land and water, and then to shape and raise them. Only a complex society could have marshaled such a large workforce and the design and construction skills needed to build Stonehenge and its surrounding monuments.

Stonehenge's alignment with the sunrise and sunset has always been one of its most striking features. Whether this is because its builders came from a sun-worshipping culture or because – as some scholars assert – the circle and its banks were part of a vast astronomical calendar, remains a mystery. Undeniable is the ingenuity of the builders of Stonehenge. Using only very basic tools, they shaped the stones and formed the mortise and tenon joints that connect the uprights and lintels. They dug pits to hold the stones and built the banks and ditches enclosing them using antlers and bones.

Visit this prehistoric site and decide for yourself whether Stonehenge was a place of sun worship, a healing sanctuary, a sacred burial ground, or something entirely different!

• Opening Hours: Monday to Sunday 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM (Last admission is 2 hours before closing)