Mont Saint Michel is a small rocky islet, roughly one kilometer from the north coast of France at the mouth of the Couesnon River, near Avranches in Normandy, close to the border of Brittany. It is home to the unusual Benedictine Abbey Church (built

between the 11th and 16th centuries) which occupies most of the one

kilometer diameter clump of rocks jutting out of the ocean.

It is connected to the mainland via a thin natural land bridge, which before

modernization was covered at high tide, and revealed at low tide. Thus, Mont

Saint Michel gained a mystical quality, being an island half the time, and being

attached to land the other : a tidal island.

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