- But it would be a mistake to think of Mont Saint-Michel as a prison, first and foremost it's a Benedictine abbey.
- Facing east, the Benedictine Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel sits majestically at the top of a 262 foot high pyramid shaped rock in the Normandy Region of France.
- When Louis XI of France founded the Order of Saint Michael in 1469, he intended that the abbey church of Mont Saint-Michel be the chapel for the Order, but...
- When Christianity expanded to this area, around the 4th century, Mont Tombe, the original name of Mont Saint Michel, was part of diocèse d’Avranches.
- The Mont Saint-Michel Abbey was declared world heritage by the UNESCO in 1979 and is the center of tourism welcoming 2.5 million visitors annually.
- It was exactly a millennium ago that the first stone of the abbey church of Mont Saint-Michel, in French Normandy, was laid.
- The abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, founded in the 8th century, is a former Benedictine abbey located on the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Mont Saint-Michel.
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- Mont Saint Michel Abbey. ... Yılın her ayı iki kez Manş Denizi’nin dev gelgitleri Mont Saint-Michel’in etrafını sararak, bir ada haline gelemsini sağlamaktadır.
- The buildings of an abbey are typically constructed side by side. But Mont-Saint-Michel is a rock, so he needed to innovate.