PLACES TO VISIT

In the 11th century, William de Volpiano designed the Romanesque church of the abbey, daringly placing the transept crossing at the top of the mount. Many underground crypts and chapels had to be built to compensate for this weight; these formed the basis for the supportive upward structure that can be seen today.

Today Mont Saint-Michel is seen as a building of Romanesque architecture.

Mass is celebrated from Sunday to Friday at 11 am, on Saturday at 6 pm. During July and August mass at 11am and 5pm on Sunday.

Rightly called "The Wonder of the Western World", the Mont-Saint-Michel is surrounded by a magnificent bay, which is the theatre of the greatest tidal ranges in Europe, a grandiose spectacle.

Situated between the Point of Grouin (Cancale) in Brittany and the Point of Champeaux (towards Granville), in Normandy, the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel is also included on the UNESCO list of World Cultural and Natural Heritage sites.

A place of history and legends, today's site has been subject for thousands of years to the vagaries of natural forces.

Archeoscope:

a show to discover the construction of this fabulous monument and its sacred history.

Museum of history:

old collections ( weapons, paintings, sculptures, watches), prisons and dungeons, the 19th century periscope which reveals the bay.

Maritime and ecology museum:

to discover the tides, the bay and the massive building site to restore the maritime character of the Mont Saint-Michel.

Tiphaine's house:

to discover the 14th century residence that Bertrand Duguesclin had built in 1365 for his wife Tiphaine (furnitures, paintings, tapestries).