Mont Saint Michel in France is located on a small island just off the coasts of Brittany and Normandy and is a stunning UNESCO World Heritage site. Mont St Michel is not a castle it is a medieval Abbey and village constructed over 1300 years on a tiny island surrounded by the sea. The building and architecture of the Mont St Michel Abbey and
It was under the reign of King Louis XI that Mont Saint-Michel became France’s version of Alcatraz. Transformed into a detention center, it took in prisoners until 1860. The French Revolution locked up dissidents and put them in holding cells located in the abbey. When the prison closed a century later following an imperial decree, the 650
For nearly 1000 years, pilgrims have flocked to Mont Saint-Michel to ask for the assurance of eternal life from the Archangel of Judgement, Saint Michael. In the year 708, this same archangel would come to disturb the dreams of Bishop Aubert of Avranches, three times, asking him to build a sanctuary in his honour on Mont Tombe.
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