Haven Nº 008 — Brú na Bóinne, County Meath
Newgrange
On five December mornings, the sun walks 62 feet into a 5,000-year-old tomb. A lottery decides who is inside.
Ireland
Green fields, old stones and the winter sun.
In the Boyne Valley, a tomb built around 3200 BC lets the sun in for seventeen minutes on clear mornings around the winter solstice. We say how to enter the lottery, and what to do if you lose it.
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