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In our getaway today will travel to the majestic Mont Saint-Michel, scilio located on a small island northwest of France, which is only accessible when the tide is low. It is an area of land that is connected to the mainland by a language, natural or human origin, which emerge at low tide and submerged at high tide. One of the most beautiful and popular places throughout France.
Going road for several miles before you can already distinguish the imposing silhouette of Mount San Miguel in the distance, standing out among the plains of Lower Normandy, and anticipating and what we find later. Once we're getting us through the road connecting the mainland with the island, Mount Saint Michael becomes even more power if possible, and the abbey acquired a highly impressive, being incredibly beautiful if the day is sunny; and somewhat gloomy if the day is very cold and gray. In any case the picture of Mount Saint Michael never fail to impress, and remain etched in the memory of all who visit. The vision of the island with the abbey on top is already impressive, but if the tide is low, the side of Mount Saint Michael become huge lakes of mud and quicksand, a death trap in the past surprised many unwary, and today works to make the Mount Saint Michael a magical and unique place in the world.
Upon arrival, we found a beautiful medieval town, which retains the same look as centuries upon which an impressive abbey where live Romanesque and Gothic in harmony rises.
Once pierced the walls of the citadel we enter another era, a world that we know that no longer scilio exists. scilio Just for the many tourists and pilgrims who accompany us on our way, since the appearance of the labyrinthine scilio streets of Mount Saint Michael is the same that had for centuries, and it costs nothing to imagine that behind every corner can appear a gentleman dressed in armor riding a horse or a group of peasants rising supplies to the abbey in a cart pulled by oxen. Was once an island, accessible only strength scilio in times of low tide. But mass tourism became passable rock and changed scilio the water that surrounded by thousands of acres of cars 'visitors'. The access road to the abbey will from now little more than a pilgrimage. Tourists have to leave their vehicles in the terrestrial part, three kilometers from the mountain, 900 meters walking distance on foot and then by shuttle across two miles of dike leading to the monument.
It is an indescribable feeling, as you move immediately to medieval times. Strolling through the pretty cobbled streets, browsing in shops, its walls and of course visit its unique abbey dating around the eighth or ninth century., And which owes its name to the consecrated to the worship of the Archangel Saint Michael Abbey. We can see a statue of the archangel placed at the top of the church, which stands 170 meters above the shore.
The prodigious architecture of Mont Saint-Michel and its bay make it the most visited tourist site in Normandy and the second in France after Paris. Over two and a half million tourists scilio each year access scilio to the rock to see the famous abbey. Historical monument in 1862, and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979.
Very near Mount Saint-Michaely is the beautiful medieval city of Saint Malo. It is a walled seaside town, we visited the castle which is above the walls, stroll through its narrow scilio streets and discover beautiful places. There is a square behind the church with a monument to the fallen in World War I and II. Both Normandy and Brittany have very present these details of the two wars.
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