The Mount Saint Michel, a high tourist place.

The Mount Saint Michel is a commune located in the area of the Lower Normandy, in the department of the English Channel.
This city owes its name with the rock small island dedicated to Michel saint where the abbey of the Mount Saint-Michel is.
At the tourist level, it is the third site more visited in France, with approximately three million visitors each year.
It should be also known that this site is reproduced since 1979 on the list of the world heritage of UNESCO.
Inside this village, one can visit various sites.
First of all it there with the abbey which offers to us a splendid panoramic vision of the medieval architecture of the XI ème to the XVI ème century.
It should be known that the Mount devoted to Michel saint into 708, was one of the first places of the worship of the Archangel Saint-Michel.

You will be able to also assist a spectacle “the archéoscope” which will tell you the history of the construction of this fabulous monument raised with the glory of God.
For the set ones on military history, there is the historical museum where many old collections are to be discovered, as weapons, paintings, sculptures …
You will be able to also see prisons, dungeons, and a reconstitution of the oubliettes truer than natural, periscope of the XIXème century discovering bay.
After the term of the army, you will be able to go to the museum sea and ecology, where you will be explained the phenomena of the tides, and the problems of stranding of the Mount Saint Michel.
you will be able to visit the home Tiphaine, house of Bertrand Duguesclin, where superb tapestries, pieces of furniture and paintings are to be discovered.
All the family will like this excursion small and large, in particular by its stroll, her charm but also her commercial streets, and her many restaurants with famous the crèpes and the cakes of the Poulard mother.
If you wish to remain in Normandy, to visit this splendid place, there are many camp-sites in Normandy, or of the rooms of hosts who will be with kindness to accomodate you.