11.Mont St. Michel Abbey
Mont St. Michel Abbey, perched on a tidal island just outside Normandy in northwest France, is one of the most stunning sites imaginable. The large abbey, with its lovely chapels and cloisters, towers over the town’s packed old buildings and halls, which cascade down the slope.
This is due to the feudal society’s elevation of the abbey – and thus God – above all else. While monks and a monastery have been greeting pilgrims to the mount since at least the 9th century, much of the abbey and its exquisite Romanesque church were not completed until 1523. Nowadays, tourists to Mont St. Michel are largely drawn by the abbey’s beautiful environment and stunning historical monuments.
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