Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

Français : Entrée du Mont-Saint-Michel.

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

Mont Saint-Michel; Frankreich;

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

PLEASE, NO invitations or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks. The main gate into the site. Once through Mont Saint-Michel’s wooden gateway and are on its main street – Grande Rue, narrow, steep and winding its way to the abbey, now over a thousand years old, Benedictine monks began to construct it when they settled on the islet in 966.

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

The fortifications of Mont-Saint-Michel are a defensive structure intended to protect the mountain and its abbey during the Hundred Years War. The wall consists of curtain walls flanked by semi-circular towers and a bastioned tower: The Claudine tower, The North Tower, The Tower of Liberty, The tower of the Arcade, The King's Tower, The Buckle Tower (bastioned). The ramparts and parapets that date back to the XV century are : The door of the King, The Advance and its door, The Boulevard and its door, the guard Bourgeois (XVI century) [fr.wikipedia.org]

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

Deutsch: Boulevard-Tor, Le Mont-Saint-Michel, Département Manche, Region Normandie (ehemals Nieder-Normandie), Frankreich

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

English: Mont Saint-Michel in year 2014.

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

Deutsch: Mont-Saint-Michel, Tor

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

Deutsch: Pforte Porte du Boulevard in Mont Saint-Michel

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

The Old Houses The old township of Mont Saint Michel comprised primarily of timber-framed buildings. Many of them have been torn down within the Belle Époque and substituted by way of much more comfortable buildings that nevertheless still respected the original designs. Some of the old timber framed buildings still remain. Mere Poulard located at the start of the main street is actually the start of tourist trade. After the penitentiary had been closed, Annette Poulard was the earliest to take in tourists that came to view the abbey that had been opened up to the general public. This lady grew to become well-known for her delightful service as well as for the delicious omelet’s she whipped up within the blink of an eye for people who were in a rush. The streets of Mont Saint Michel are densely covered with inns, restaurants and sou-venir stores. Before the time of the tourist trade fishing was essential, After World War II, however, tourists’ dominated and no space was left for the fishermen or even the clam diggers. The overpowering advancement of tourists’ and the appeal for the history that provides lots of people to Mont Saint Michel every year caused any entrepreneur to open up a museum, hotel, restaurant or sou-venir shop. At the conclusion of the 19th Nineteenth century, the tourist trade way of life had also been taken advantage of by the ‘Tiphaine house’ and also the maritime museum [montstmichel.co.uk]

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel

Immeubles et terrains au Mont-Saint-Michel