MONT SAINT MICHEL - BRITANY - FRANCE

A dramatic island off the coast of Normandy, Mont-St-Michel is home to an abbey that dates back to the 11th century and now boasts impressive illuminations at night. The island, with its fast and fickle tides, was a notorious prison during the French Revolution of 1789. The isle, which celebrated its 1300th anniversary in 2008, has several good restaurants and a nightclub. Only a narrow causeway built in1880 links the island to the mainland, although a bridge is due to be completed in 2012.

UNESCO has classed the Mont Saint-Michel as a world heritage in 1979 and this mecca of tourism welcomes more than three million visitors a year According to the Making Of featurettes on the Extended Edition DVDs, the Mont-Saint-Michel, was an inspiration for the design of Minnas Tirith in the 2003 film The Lord of the Rings, directed by Peter Jackson

MONT SAINT MICHE

Wonder of the Western World

Entrance to the Mont Saint Michel

The Mount consecrated to St Michel in 708 was one of the first place of cult for the Archangel Michel with the Gargan’s Mount. The abbey presents a big panorama of the medieval architecture from the XI to the XVI th century.

When tourists come to museum, they can see old collections (weapons, paintings, sculptures, watches), prisons and dungeons, the 19th century periscope which reveals the bay.

There are two dishes that many pilgrims want to taste once in my life when they vistit Mont Saint Michel :omelet dishes made by Poulard mother are sold in La mere Poulard restaurant and sheep meat dishes which are the famous all over the world.

Some of the old buildings in the village

Extravagant Hotels and restaurants..

Streets at night