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Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey
A Benedictine abbey built on the summit of the rock, with a Gothic cloister hanging between sea and sky.
- Open
- Every day except January 1, May 1 and December 25
- Price
- Paid; book a time slot online in summer
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel, 50170 Le Mont-Saint-MichelDirections
- Getting There
- At the top of the Grande Rue, about 15 minutes' climb from the gate.
Why Go
Monks settled here in 966, and the abbey grew over five centuries. Its masterpiece is La Merveille, a 13th-century Gothic building of three floors on the north side, with the refectory and the cloister at the top. After the Revolution it became a prison until 1863.
The gilded statue of St. Michael on the spire was placed in 1897.
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