The Global Beauty: Beautiful Mount Saint-Michel in Normandy, France

Beautiful Mount Saint-Michel in Normandy, France

Mont Saint-Michel

Mont Saint-Michel is a rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France. It is located approximately one kilometer off the country’s northwestern coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches.

Some facts about Mont St-Michel

Mont-Saint-Michel was a stronghold of Romano-Breton culture, but the French ransacked it in the 6th or 7th century.
In the 8th century, Mont Saint Michel was called Mont Tomb, due to the fact that St. Michel appeared to St. Aubert, and he told St. Aubert to build a church, but Auburt didn’t listen so St. Michel burned a hole in his head with his finger.
Mont-Saint-Michel was originally an abbey, but in the French Revolution, the monks fled and the abbey was closed and changed into a prison.
In 1067, after William of Normandy was crowned, he got a small island west of Cornwall that he modeled after Mont-Saint-Michel and called it St Michael’s mount of Penzance.
In the Hundred Years’ war, the English tried to destroy Mont-Saint-Michel but couldn’t because it was fortified.