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Voted World Heritage by UNESCO in 1979, the Mont Saint Michel is the third largest religious monument .

Mont Saint Michel at high tide
visited France, just behind Notre Dame and Sacred Heart, and is also undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and popular throughout France, and the thing is no wonder, since the Mont Saint Michel is a small island connected to the mainland by a road (past the existing road was covered by water when the tide rose), where stands a small medieval town that retains the same appearance for centuries over which rises an impressive live abbey where the Romanesque and Gothic in perfect harmony.

Going by road from several miles before you can already distinguish the imposing silhouette of Mount San Miguel in the distance, standing out among the plains of Normandy, and anticipating and what we find later. Once we’re getting through the road linking the mainland with the island, the Mont Saint Michel is even more power if possible, and the abbey takes on a very impressive, being incredibly beautiful if the day is sunny, and somewhat gloomy if the weather is very cold and gray, but in any case the picture of Mont Saint Michel will not fail to impress and be recorded in the memory of all who visit. As if the sight of the island with the abbey on top of itself was not impressive, if the tide is out side of Mont Saint Michel become huge lakes of mud and quicksand, a death trap in the past surprised many unsuspecting, and now works at the Mont Saint Michel to make a magical and unique in the world. Read the rest of this entry »