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Joao Pedro Assumpcao Bastos | profile | all galleries >> Europe >> France - Old and New - Paris and Other Regions/Cities. >> Other Regions of France >> Visiting Normandie and Bretagne (February 2017) >> Visiting the Mont Saint-Michel (Feb 2017) tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Visiting the Mont Saint-Michel (Feb 2017)

Following our trip, from Avranches, we drove to the Mont Saint Michel, one of the most interesting visits in France. We arrived about noon, in a rainy day. I went to the Mont in around 1981. It haven't changed much.

From the web net: it is an island commune in Normandy, France. It is located about one kilometre off the country's northwestern coast, near Avranches. As of 2009, the island has a population of 44. The island has held strategic fortifications since ancient times and since the 8th century AD has been the seat of the monastery from which it draws its name. The structural composition of the town exemplifies the feudal society that constructed it: on top, God, the abbey and monastery; below, the great halls; then stores and housing; and outside the walls, houses for fishermen and farmers. The commune's position — on an island just 600 metres from land — made it accessible at low tide to the many pilgrims to its abbey, but defensible as an incoming tide stranded, drove off, or drowned would-be assailants. The Mont remained unconquered during the Hundred Years' War; a small garrison fended off a full attack by the English in 1433. The reverse benefits of its natural defence were not lost on Louis XI, who turned the Mont into a prison. Thereafter the abbey began to be used more regularly as a jail during the Ancien Régime. One of France's most recognizable landmarks, visited by more than 3 million people each year, Mont Saint-Michel and its bay are on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Over 60 buildings within the commune are protected in France as monuments historiques.
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The Mont Saint Michel, viewed from outside.
The Mont Saint Michel, viewed from outside.		 The Mont Saint Michel : Century X, the begining.
The Mont Saint Michel : Century X, the begining.		 The Mont Saint Michel : Centuries XI and XII.
The Mont Saint Michel : Centuries XI and XII.		 The Mont Saint Michel : Centuries XVII - XVIII.
The Mont Saint Michel : Centuries XVII - XVIII.
The Mont Saint Michel as today.
The Mont Saint Michel as today.		 The Mont Saint Michel, viewed from outside.
The Mont Saint Michel, viewed from outside.		 The Mont Saint Michel; its tower construction.
The Mont Saint Michel; its tower construction.		 The roofs of the Mont Saint Michel.
The roofs of the Mont Saint Michel.
The Mont Saint Michel : also viewed from outside.
The Mont Saint Michel : also viewed from outside.		 The Mont Saint Michel : the abbey frontal wall.
The Mont Saint Michel : the abbey frontal wall.		 The Mont Saint Michel : inside the walls.
The Mont Saint Michel : inside the walls. 		The Mont Saint Michel : inside the walls.
The Mont Saint Michel : inside the walls.
The Mont Saint Michel : inside the citadel.
The Mont Saint Michel : inside the citadel.		 Climbing towards the abbey.
Climbing towards the abbey.		 The Mont Saint Michel : the abbey tower.
The Mont Saint Michel : the abbey tower.		 The Mont Saint Michel paths.
The Mont Saint Michel paths.
Mont Saint Michel: roofs.
Mont Saint Michel: roofs.		 Mont Saint Michel: roofs.
Mont Saint Michel: roofs.		 Mont Saint Michel, inside and outside.
Mont Saint Michel, inside and outside.		 Françoise on the paths of the Mont Saint Michel.
Françoise on the paths of the Mont Saint Michel.
Religious people certainly have fun at the Mont Saint Michel.
Religious people certainly have fun at the Mont Saint Michel. 		Mont Saint Michel, inside and outside.
Mont Saint Michel, inside and outside.		 Mont Saint Michel; roofs.
Mont Saint Michel; roofs.		 Mont Saint Michel, its paths.
Mont Saint Michel, its paths.
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