The island-fortress of Mont Saint-Michel is a very popular and significant place, widely known for its medieval monastery and the unique manifestation of the ebb and flow, which constantly change the surrounding landscape and open and close access to this place. Its dominant feature is the Benedictine abbey, which has been operating intermittently since the 11th century. and to this day. Many legends and historical events are associated with it, because the powerful and impregnable walls of the monastery were more than once participants and witnesses of many bloody wars and confrontations.
The area of ​​the Abbey is about 55,000 sq. m and it itself is an excellent example of a French medieval fortified monastery. The Mont-Saint-Michel monastery ensemble includes the Royal Gate, the large Knights' Hall, the Refectory, the neo-Romanesque bell tower with a neo-Gothic spire topped with a gilded figure of the Archangel Michael, and much more. It will also be interesting for visitors to the island to see not only the Abbey itself, but also the fortress walls encircling the island, and a small town located at the foot of the monastery.