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Mount Saint Michel (Normandy - France)

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The « Wonder of the Western World » forms a tower in the heart of an immense bay invaded by the highest tides in Europe.

It was at the request of the Archangel Michel « chief of the celestial militia » that Aubert, Bishop of Avranches built and consecrated a small church on the 16th October 709. In 966 a community of Benedictines settled on the rock at the request of the Duke of Normandy and the pre-Romanesque church was built before the year one thousand.

In the 11th century, the Romanesque abbey church was founded over a set of crypts where the rock comes to an apex, and the first monastery buildings were built up against its north wall.

In the 12th century, the Romanesque monastery buildings were extended to the west and south.

In the 13th century , a donation by the king of France, Philip Augustus , in the wake of his conquest of Normandy, enabled a start to be made on the Gothic section of the "Merveille ": two three-storey buildings, crowned by the cloister and the refectory.

Access :

By Plane : > Roissy Charles De Gaulle and Orly International
> Rennes Airport > 75 kms from Mont Saint Michel > 12 direct flights to several french towns > 70 destinations with connections

> Dinard Pleurtuit International Airport > 70 kms from Mont Saint Michel > flights to England > Londres Stansted Airport

By Train : Paris Montparnasse to Rennes (2 hours) > Connections by Bus Rennes-Le Mont Saint Michel

By Road : A11 Motorway > Chartres-Le Mans-Laval exit to Fougères and direction to Le Mont Saint Michel
A13 Motorway to Rouen and Caen