The French heritage Mont-Saint-Michel: grand buildings and pray

Western France Mont Saint Michel mont-saint Michel (ancient tomb Hill) and the monastery is located in the Normandy region south of the territory of Brittany, near the French border city of Saint Malo St Malo Bay, 359 km away from Paris. The island is in a conical shape, the circumference of 950 meters, 80 meters above sea level, composed of stands of granulite.

Mont Saint Michel

Mont Saint Michel in Saint Malo bay to the sea level drop rapidly be well-known, far and near, the climax and the low ebb of up to 15 meters. As the Bay deep water area is not much and flat bottom, at low tide the sea away from the shore about 15 to 20 kilometers. Usually high speed equivalent to a person walking speed of 4 kilometers per hour, when the wind speed increased to 30 kilometers per hour. Every evening, the Atlantic tide is like ten thousand steeds gallop. - come, will overwhelm the Mont Saint Michel quicksands, holy mountain to the sea, spectacular. The flow is hindered due to nineteenth Century building causeways linking Mont Saint Michel, tide ups and downs, left a lot of silt and sediment in the sand in the course of time, the terrain becomes higher, the shape of the spectacle Island, also disappear.

Le Mont Saint Michel

Mont Saint Michel Abbey is Catholic in addition to the third holy land outside Jerusalem and the Vatican, is a station to Spain Santiago pilgrimage important. In 1979 the Saint-Michel monastery has been included in the list of world cultural heritage.

Mont Saint Michel's history can be traced back to 708 BC

Mont Saint Michel's history can be traced back to 708 bc:

Story: the archangel Saint Michel came to a San Francisco Avranches bishop ou Aubert, asked ou to build a prayer room in his honor, the first bishop of Auber and not too concerned about this matter, is not to regard it as right to the archangel Michel two consecutive dreams. Then, one night, third in Saint Michel angel -- lose one's temper of time in Ou dream, he used his God in Ou forehead up. Wake up from the dream of Auber bishop touched the dent on the forehead, this just see light suddenly, so he immediately rushed to the grave hill to complete the archangels of god.

Many architects and artists dressing in the hard rock and carved.

Since then, numerous monks and craftsmen will be a block of granulite across the sand, step by step, pull the top. Many architects and artists dressing in the hard rock and carved. After generations of hard work, until sixteenth Century, Le Mont Saint Michel really completed. A dream Ou let countless people all busy for 8 centuries. Since then, the grave hill there in today is still a great building -- Saint-Michel monastery.

Image & text.Chant