{"id":2125,"date":"2013-10-29T04:36:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.lewisdrafting.com.au\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2013-10-31T01:48:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:48:54","slug":"mont-saint-michel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"Mont Saint Michel"},"content":{"rendered":"

We visited an incredible place in Brittany France……Mont Saint Michel. My photos really do not do the place justice. If you google Mont St Michel you will see some\u00a0amazing photos. Mont St Michel\u00a0is a monastery built on a rock tidal island around 1 kilometre off the northern coast of France. The island\u00a0itself is\u00a0less than 1\u00a0km in diameter. Nowadays there is a causeway which connects the island to the mainland.<\/p>\n

This place is characterized by the highest tides in Europe (up to 14 meters high), steep rocks, and quicksand. Its surrounding waters can move 18\u00a0km away from the island and 20\u00a0km deep into the coast. For centuries all these features made Mont Saint-Michel an impenetrable fortress.<\/p>\n

First inhabitants of this 92-meter tall mountain, ancient Celts, didn’t have any illusions about it and called it Mont Tombe (Mountain Tomb). Back then Mont Saint-Michel wasn\u2019t an island: it was surrounded by the forest that was later washed away by ocean waters.<\/p>\n

While the mainland was ravaged by wars,\u00a0and captured by the Vikings, the Normans, the Bretons, the British, and other nations – the island-fortress remained untouched.\u00a0Mont Saint-Michel\u00a0is\u00a0a Benedictine abbey. It occupies an area of about 55,000 square meters and it is regarded as a unique example of a fortified medieval French monastery. The top of the Cathedral’s spire is 170 meters above the sea level!<\/p>\n

Mont Saint-Michel\u00a0is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.<\/p>\n

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Mont St Michel at low tide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Colour in the village outside Mont St Michel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mont Saint MIchel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We visited an incredible place in Brittany France……Mont Saint Michel. My photos really do not do the place justice. If you google Mont St Michel you will see some\u00a0amazing photos. Mont St Michel\u00a0is a monastery built on a rock tidal island around 1 kilometre off the northern coast of France. The island\u00a0itself is\u00a0less than 1\u00a0km … Continue reading Mont Saint Michel<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy-france-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}