France , Mont Saint-Michel Abbey
Mont Saint-Michel is a unique architectural complex consisting of a medieval abbey and a tiny commune at its walls, located on a small rocky island off the northwest coast of France in the department of the English Channel.
The construction of the abbey began with the arrival in 966 of Benedictine monks, invited by the Duke of Normandy Richard I, to the place of the community of canons expelled by him.
The Mont Saint-Michel rock in Normandy is a granite monolith 80 m high with a rounded foot, standing at the mouth of the Cusnon River. The area of the rocky island is 7 hectares.
At intervals of 24 hours and 50 minutes, tides occur in the bay, the most powerful in Europe. The water leaves the island at low tide for 18 km and floods the coast at high tide for 20 km .
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