The Mont-Saint-Michel abbey is the most visited Norman tourist site. This "wonder of the world" was built between the 11th and 16th centuries.
This high place of international pilgrimage owes its origin to the bishop of Avranches Saint-Aubert who, in the 8th century would have seen the Archangel Saint-Michel appear.
The Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel has undergone over the centuries a few reshuffles and this architectural ensemble is thus composed of a pre-romantic church, a abbey, of convent romance and Gothic buildings called "the wonder". Transformed into a prison of the Revolution to the Second Empire, the abbey was entrusted in 1874 to the service of historic monuments. Since 1969, a monastic community has provided a permanent spiritual presence.
