Mont Saint Michel Abbey

The Mont Saint Michel Abbey is located within the metropolis and island of Mont Saint Michel in Lower Normandy, inside the branch of Manche. The abbey is a vital a part of the structural composition of the city the feudal society constructed. On pinnacle, God, the abbey and monastery under this, the Great halls, then stores and housing and at the lowest fishermen and farmers housing. The abbey has been protected as a French monument historique when you consider that 1862.

Since 1979, the site as an entire the Mont Saint Michel and its bay has been a UNESCO global records site and is managed via the Centre des monuments nationaux. The first text approximately an abbey is the 9th century Latin text Revelation ecclesiae sancti Michaelis in monte Tumba written by way of a chanoine dwelling at Mont Saint Michel or at the Cathedral Saint Andre d Avranches. This textual content turned into written at a time of electricity struggle among Brittany and the County of Normandy in opposition to Francia further to sooner or later of canon regulation reforms by means of Roman emperors.