Something about Le Mont-Saint-Michel

Le Mont-Saint-Michel is the municipality under which the tidal island of Mont Saint-Michel and its sister island of Tombelaine fall. The commune is part of the department of Manche; there are 43 inhabitants

More about Le Mont-Saint-Michel

The Mont Saint-Michel is built on a rocky island. Over the centuries, all kinds of architectural gems have been built here: the pre-Romanesque church, the abbey church from the 11th and 15th centuries, and the Romanesque and Gothic monastic buildings.

History

The Mont Saint-Michel owes its existence to an appearance. That of Archangel Saint Michael (hence his name) to Saint-Aubert, Bishop of Avranches. After this holy intervention, the bishop had a place of pilgrimage built in 709 on Mont Tombe, then just an island of granite.

Geograpthy

Mont-Saint-Michel is almost circular (about 3,000 feet [900 meters] in circumference) and consists of a granite outcrop rising sharply (to 256 feet [78 metres]) out of Mont-Saint-Michel Bay (between Brittany and Normandy) .