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Encyclopedia: Mont Saint-Michel

Mont Saint-Michel is located in Normandy in the department of Manche. Its name comes from a small island, a granitic outgrowth approaching 960 meters in circumference that reaches 92 meters above sea level, dedicated to archangel Michael. The extraordinary architecture of Mont Saint-Michel and its bay make it the most visited tourist attraction in Normandy and the third in France (after the Eiffel tower and the castle of Versailles), with some 3,200,000 visitors each year. Classified as a historic building in 1874, the site has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. The church is crowned by a gold statue of St. Michael. which was sculpted by Emmanuel Frémiet, reaching a height of 155 metres (510 feet) above sea level. 48°38′10.05″N, 1°30′40.9500″W.

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How to say "Mont Saint-Michel" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	聖米歇爾山
	(Japanese)	モン・サン＝ミシェル
	(German)	Mont-Saint-Michel
	(Spanish)	Monte Saint-Michel
	(French)	Le Mont-Saint-Michel
	(Italian)	Le Mont-Saint-Michel

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List of islands of France

This is a list of islands of metropolitan France. Atlantic coast Chausey Mont Saint Michel Bréhat Batz Ile d'Ouessant Molène Sein Glénan islands Groix Belle Île Houat Hoëdic Ile-aux-Moines Ile... Sainte Marguerite Saint Honorat Corsica Lavezzi Islands...

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Tidal island

A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a causeway exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. The most famous tidal island is Mont Saint Michel in Normandy, France. Other tidal islands include: Lindisfarne and St Michael's Mount in England; the Brough of Birsay...

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Avranches

Avranches is a town in Normandy, a region of France. It is situated at the southern end of the Cotentin Peninsula on the E40 road connecting Saint-Lô with Brittany. From Avranches, it is possible to see the Mont Saint Michel, which was founded by St. Aubert, the Bishop of Avranches in the eighth...

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Saint-Malo

the Ile de Grand Bé The Cathedral of St. Vincent See also: Mont-Saint-Michel... Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany in northern France on the shore of the English Channel. It is a sous-préfecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine département . Saint-Malo was the birthplace of...

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Chausey

, including for the construction of Mont Saint Michel. Although the -ey ending of the name Chausey...

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Mont Saint Michel

Mont-Saint-Michel (2004) View from the south Mont Saint Michel is a small rocky islet..., which before modernization was covered at high tide, and revealed at low tide. Thus, Mont Saint Michel gained a mystical quality, being an island half the time, and being attached to land the other : a...

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Lihou

it was under the control of Mont Saint Michel and thereafter under Eton College until the Reformation...

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Sir Kay

Arthur, he helped kill the Giant of Mont Saint Michel. In the Welsh story Culhwch and Olwen , after he...

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Cotentin Peninsula

of the Armorican Massif and lies between the estuary of the River Vire and Mont Saint Michel Bay. It... Cherbourg on the north coast, a major cross-channel port. Other towns of note: Coutances, Barfleur, Saint... (himself from the Cotentin) The Battle of La Hougue took place in 1692 at Saint-Vaast La Hougue near...

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Norman architecture

buildings in Normandy Abbey of Jumièges, near Rouen (ruins) Abbey of Mont Saint Michel, Normandy...

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