Mont-Saint Michel is one of the most spectacular sights in the world which holds a village and a large monastery. Topping this monastry is the Abbey. The monastery was built on a rock island around 1 kilometer off the nothern coast of France by Cistercian monks and played an important role in hundred year war between France and England, when it was an almost impenetrable strongholdThe island is itself just less than 1 kilometer in diameter. Nowadays there is a causeway which connects the island to the mainland. There are plans to replace this with a bridge and a bus service. This development is mainly welcomed by the local community. The Mont is the second most popular tourist attraction in France.
Mont Saint Michel (also written Le Mont-Saint-Michel ,Mont-St-Michel, English: St Michael's Mount) is a small rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France about 1 km from the north coast of France at the mouth of the Couesnon River in Normandy .It is a 1-ha (3-acre) rocky islet topped by a famous Gothic abbey that dates back to the 11th century and now boasts impressive illuminations at night in the English Channel. The mount is best known for the medieval Benedictine Abbey and steepled church that occupies most of the 1km-diameter clump of rocks jutting out of the waters of the English Channel.
The island, with its fast and fickle tides, was a notorious prison during the French Revolution of 1789. The isle, which celebrated its 1300th anniversary in 2008, has several good restaurants and a nightclub. Only a narrow causeway built in1880 links the island to the mainland, although a bridge is due to be completed in 2012.
Mont-Saint-Michel is a The island, located 5 km (3 mi) from the shore during the Middle Ages, is now surrounded by water only two times a month. Its one cobblestone street climbs in three spirals from a great granite base to the towering Benedictine abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, an architectural masterpiece built in the 13th century, replacing the original abbey, which was founded in 708 by Saint Aubert, bishop of Avranches, but destroyed by King Philip II of France in 1203.
Its fortifications enabled the islet to withstand repeated English assaults during the Hundred Years' War. The abbey served as a prison during Napoleon I's reign. Restored after 1863, and connected to the mainland by a causeway (completed 1875), the abbey is preserved as a national historical monument and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is one of France's great tourist attractions. The abbey is celebrated in Henry Adam's classic study of medieval Christianity, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1913).
Mont Saint-Michel was previously connected to the mainland via a thin natural land bridge, which before modernization was covered at high tide and revealed at low tide. Thus, Mont Saint Michel gained a mystical quality, being an island half the time and being attached to land the other: a tidal island. On 16 June 2006, the Prime Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin, announced a €150 million project (Projet Mont Saint-Michel) to build a hydraulic dam that will help remove the accumulated silt and make Mont Saint-Michel an island again. It is expected to be completed by 2012.
Mont St Michel Surrounded by the sea and the moving sands, linked to the mainland via a seawall, this "Western Marvel" is unique in the world. Dredging works are being carried out to ensure that the bay keeps its unique maritime characteristic.
The inhabitants of Mont-Saint-Michel are called the Montois.
There’s a road reaching Mont Saint Michel that is only flooded when the tide is very high. Most of the time now a sea of touring cars and Italian Campers is surrounding the medieval fortress, the small streets are packed with tourists, but there are still special arrangements for real pilgrims. Go early in the morning, to avoid the crowds.
Mont Saint Michel (also written Le Mont-Saint-Michel ,Mont-St-Michel, English: St Michael's Mount) is a small rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France about 1 km from the north coast of France at the mouth of the Couesnon River in Normandy .It is a 1-ha (3-acre) rocky islet topped by a famous Gothic abbey that dates back to the 11th century and now boasts impressive illuminations at night in the English Channel. The mount is best known for the medieval Benedictine Abbey and steepled church that occupies most of the 1km-diameter clump of rocks jutting out of the waters of the English Channel.
The island, with its fast and fickle tides, was a notorious prison during the French Revolution of 1789. The isle, which celebrated its 1300th anniversary in 2008, has several good restaurants and a nightclub. Only a narrow causeway built in1880 links the island to the mainland, although a bridge is due to be completed in 2012.
Mont-Saint-Michel is a The island, located 5 km (3 mi) from the shore during the Middle Ages, is now surrounded by water only two times a month. Its one cobblestone street climbs in three spirals from a great granite base to the towering Benedictine abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, an architectural masterpiece built in the 13th century, replacing the original abbey, which was founded in 708 by Saint Aubert, bishop of Avranches, but destroyed by King Philip II of France in 1203.
Its fortifications enabled the islet to withstand repeated English assaults during the Hundred Years' War. The abbey served as a prison during Napoleon I's reign. Restored after 1863, and connected to the mainland by a causeway (completed 1875), the abbey is preserved as a national historical monument and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is one of France's great tourist attractions. The abbey is celebrated in Henry Adam's classic study of medieval Christianity, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1913).
Mont Saint-Michel was previously connected to the mainland via a thin natural land bridge, which before modernization was covered at high tide and revealed at low tide. Thus, Mont Saint Michel gained a mystical quality, being an island half the time and being attached to land the other: a tidal island. On 16 June 2006, the Prime Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin, announced a €150 million project (Projet Mont Saint-Michel) to build a hydraulic dam that will help remove the accumulated silt and make Mont Saint-Michel an island again. It is expected to be completed by 2012.
Mont St Michel Surrounded by the sea and the moving sands, linked to the mainland via a seawall, this "Western Marvel" is unique in the world. Dredging works are being carried out to ensure that the bay keeps its unique maritime characteristic.
The inhabitants of Mont-Saint-Michel are called the Montois.There’s a road reaching Mont Saint Michel that is only flooded when the tide is very high. Most of the time now a sea of touring cars and Italian Campers is surrounding the medieval fortress, the small streets are packed with tourists, but there are still special arrangements for real pilgrims. Go early in the morning, to avoid the crowds.
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