Castle Mont-Saint-Michel .. Three months tourist attraction in France - get to know them

Castle Mont-Saint-Michel .. Three months tourist attraction in France - get to know them

On the nearby island of the coast of Normandy and near the city of Brittany in northern France is third month tourist attraction French, attracts alone four million tourists annually, although it is isolated and not linked to the mainland only by a narrow bridge she Castle Mont-Saint-Michel, which had long been out of sight and attention to isolation inIsland.

Unlike the castles French constructed all for defensive purposes in the first place, the Castle Mont-Saint-Michel built for another purpose, to be a monastery for worship, and over the centuries has changed her job more than once to be completely stopped and became a place to visit, it is today a place of pilgrimage important tourist in France,these show the castle in movies, graphics, and even in computer games when he referred to France

 

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The Castle Mont Saint Michel of months places World Heritage listed by UNESCO since 1979 due to its ancient history and history of the place in it, Through this place before adopting the castle there was an old church lived by hundreds of monks who were detained by the British during the war with France, which calledHundred Years War.

Were completed construction of the castle in 1521 after several centuries of construction, and by the seventeenth century was the impact of the monasteries and churches almost disappears from the lives of people in Europe, and increased after the French Revolution, turned Castle Mont-Saint-Michel to the prison, and the passage of days increased their worseeven in 1873 and regained its glory again some renovations and repairs.
This set of pictures of the castle from home and abroad.