Giant's Causeway

The road of the giants, the path of the Giant, as well as the Bridge Giants, all these names belong to the same area that is located in Ireland. It is an amazing landscape that forms numerous basalt pillars that call more than a hundred meters into the sea. These huge hex columns are buried deep, about 11 meters and very tightly stand to each other.

There are approximately 40 thousand units of amazing stone formations, which, at first glance, seem like a solid monolithic.

The so-called pavement giants formed as a result of the volcanic eruption. About 20 million years ago, a whole chain of volcanoes was present in this country, which had a very high temperature at their very base. From this temperature, even very hard rocks melted to which the basalt belongs. Lava from the basalt with a powerful stream ran down to the sea, where, cooling down, cracked into pieces. These cracks turned the monolith from lava into multifaceted pillars, which mainly have six faces. Among the many pillars of frozen lava, some were pushed a little higher than the rest, which have the appearance of stepwise springboards that go to the sea.

The coast of Kozway-Kost, together with the Dear Giants, has been owned by UNESCO since 1986. In 1987, this area was declared the protected area of Northern Ireland.

There is a legend called the Bridge Giants. It deals with one giant named Finn McCool that he tried to pave the way across the sea, driving, one after the other, columns from the basalt. Having built the crossing, the tired giant lay down to rest, and when he fell asleep, his giant enemy from the opposite shore took and partially dismantled the road.

Modern tourists are satisfied with both the natural version of the road formation and the legendary. After all, no matter how it forms, the Bridge Giants is very popular among the attractions of Northern Ireland.