Abbey of Saint - Michel
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To get to the buildings of the abbey, the need to reach the end of the Grand rue and then climb the stone stairs. Most of the rooms can be viewed independently, but in the ticket price includes hour excursion (French and English. Lang.). 8 day tour is 5.6. The last start for half an hour before closing.
The layout is not typical of the abbey. She is originally form the rocks and the scarcity of building land. The monks were forced to deploy elements of the architectural complex of each other. The peak of this kind of medieval "skyscraper" became the church and abbey buildings band La Merv - Miracle. Construction materials on the rock was not there. Stones and bricks were brought here by sea at high tide, and then dragged with ropes to the summit.
The layout is not typical of the abbey. She is originally form the rocks and the scarcity of building land. The monks were forced to deploy elements of the architectural complex of each other. The peak of this kind of medieval "skyscraper" became the church and abbey buildings band La Merv - Miracle. Construction materials on the rock was not there. Stones and bricks were brought here by sea at high tide, and then dragged with ropes to the summit.
Climbing up the steep stairs to the entrance to the abbey to fall into the guard room (hall guard), where the offices and information booths. Follow the brown signs to go up the stairs to the Grand Prix on the terrace degrada-Gauthier S, and then on the western terrace. She appeared once in the fire destroyed part of the Abbey Church (XVIII). The terrace overlooks the bay, the island archipelago and Tomblen Shoze, where they took the granite for the construction of the monastery. Each year, on 8 November (St. Michael's fall) can be seen from the terrace as the sun sets behind the mountain Dole. According to legend, in this day over. Michael fought with the dragon there.
Hence it is clearly visible spire bell tower (1867, Gothic Revival, a copy of the bell tower of Notre-Dame in Paris), topped by a gilded figure of the Archangel Michael (Sculptor Frema).
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