Mont Saint-Michel: detail of the fortified abbey.

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Mont Saint-Michel is a granitic rocky island about 960 meters in circumference located east of the mouth of the Couesnon river, in the Manche department in Normandy, and whose name refers directly to the Archangel Saint Michael. Before the year 709, it was known as "Mount Tomb". Throughout the Middle Ages, it was commonly called "Mont Saint-Michel at the peril of the sea" (Mons Sancti Michaeli in periculo mari). The abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel is located on the mount, and the mount constitutes a small part of the territory of the municipality of Mont-Saint-Michel. Mont Saint-Michel bathes in the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, open to the English Channel. The islet reaches an altitude of 92 meters and offers a surface area of approximately 7 ha, the essential part of the rock being covered by the footprint of the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel and its domain. This islet rises in a large sandy more :

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