Mont Saint Michel alle 5.30 del mattino (Mont Saint Michel at 5.30 am), Normandia, Francia 2001. Camera Roll-973. Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy. Alba a Saint Michel
By Kevin M. Hymel Of all the landmarks in Europe, few are as distinctive and instantly recognizable as the medieval fortress/ monastery of Mont Saint Michel, located on the French coast seven miles southwest of the city of Avranches. Mont Saint Michel stands out like a beacon visible for miles. The 247-acre rock island in Mont Saint Michel Bay is topped by a towering 11th-century Romanesque abbey, making it one of the most outstanding landmarks in Europe. Below the religious structures lies a town filled with hotels, restaurants, museums, and souvenir shops. An immense wall with defensive positions encircles the entire structure. During high tides, the bay waters surround the island, with only a causeway connecting it to the mainland. Rare, extremely high tides completely cover the causeway. According to legend, in the year 708, Saint Michael the Archangel appeared to Aubert, Bishop of Avranches, several times and instructed him to build a church on the rocky inlet. Aubert ignored the requests until the angel allegedly touched his head, burning a hole in his skull. The famous Bayeux Tapestry of 1066 records Harold, Earl of Wessex, rescuing two Norman knights from the Mont’s quicksand. During the Hundred Years’ War, Mont Saint Michel withstood repeated sieges and attacks in the early 1400s. During the French Revolution, the abbey became a prison for political prisoners, but Mont Saint Michel is best known for its cloistered Benedictine monks and the thousands of believers who make pilgrimages to the church each year. German soldiers had first entered Mont Saint Michel on June 18, 1940, the day before the French government agreed to surrender. The Germans set up a lookout post in the St. Aubert church spire, where bored Luftwaffe observers penned their names (they are still there). Five Luftwaffe servicemen lived permanently in the abbey. Other German soldiers were billeted in the hotels around the Mont and issued official occupation notices. In the summer of 1940, Wehrmacht soldiers held military maneuvers in the shadow of the Mont as they prepared for Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of Great Britain. Private Freeman Brougher sits on his jeep after liberating France’s Mont Saint Michel on August 1, 1944. The locals referred to him as the Savior of Mont Saint Michel. To accommodate the occupiers, merchants inside the village had to change their signs from French to German. With million French soldiers locked in German POW camps and thousands of others ordered to Germany to work in Nazi industries, wives and daughters became the abbey’s caretakers and tour guides. German soldiers on leave visited the ancient wonder in large numbers, while most Frenchmen, conserving their gasoline, were rarely able to make a pilgrimage. Tourism was further discouraged when the Germans required all French visitors to procure a special pass for their vehicles as well as a hard-to-get permit to gain access to the coastal zone. During the four years of occupation, 325,000 Germans visited the Mont while only 1,000 French made the trek. The Germans’ presence was obtrusive and unwelcome. When the body of a Luftwaffe corporal washed up in the bay, he was buried in the Mont Saint Michel cemetery. The Germans also banned fishing in the bay as a security measure once anti-invasion obstacles were constructed around the island. Many of these obstacles were simple poles topped with mines and connected to each other by barbed wire. Thousands of these so-called “Rommel’s Asparagus” bloomed in the mud flats around the island. Everything changed on June 6, 1944—D-Day. As the Allies poured ashore and squeezed the Germans into Brittany in early August, the local residents witnessed hundreds of Germans retreating to designated fortress ports, such as St. Malo, Brest, and Lorient. Some of the harried German soldiers showed up at the Mont barefoot. Other exhausted soldiers arrived and collapsed on the cobblestone sidewalks. French residents were terrified the Germans would take out their frustrations on the local population. One brave Frenchman, a Mr. Molleau, ventured to snap a forbidden picture of the defeated enemy on the street below his window. His hands shook as he held the camera, resulting in a blurry photograph. German sailors pose before Mont Saint Michel. After it was captured by the German Army on June 18, 1940, it became a tourist attraction for the occupying forces. As the last Germans prepared to depart the abbey, one soldier machine gunned the statue of the founding bishop atop St. Aubert’s church. It was their last menacing act. On July 30, the American 4th Armored Division captured Avranches, effectively cutting off the escape routes south and east. The 6th Armored Division then pushed west toward Pontorson, driving the retreating Germans against the Atlantic coast. Now the Americans were on the way. On August 1, as the 6th Armored drove west, Private Freeman Brougher of the 72nd Public Service and Psychological Warfare Battalion sped two British reporters, Gault MacGowan of the New York Sun and Paul Holt with the London Daily Express to the Mont. The roads were free of the enemy. Reporter Holt was not surprised by the German’s rapid retreat. He had witnessed the power of American combined arms in action near the town of Gravay. “What the tank commanders do is to pull their tanks off the road, since it is wasteful for tank to fight tank, and then call up the air,” he wrote for the Daily Express. “The Mustangs and Tiffies [Typhoons] are having a rich and rare time with such work.” The result: “The SS paratroopers [sic] walk up the road with their hands on their helmets asking the nearest way to a prisoner cage.” Off-duty Wehrmacht soldiers depart Mont Saint Michel while a French couple opens up their car for inspection. Visits by the French became scarce during the war due to fuel shortages and the special passes needed to move around the country, especially the coast. Whenever Private Brougher pulled over to ask fearful French locals for directions, their attitudes changed when they realized the strangers in the jeep were not Germans. “We saw them go into a hysterical delirium of joy,” Gault MacGowan reported. As the band of liberators neared Mont Saint Michel, they picked up a few hitchhikers. “They sprang from nowhere,” explained MacGowan. “No sooner did the magic words go around, ‘Les Americans,’ than folks came running from every direction.” By the time the jeep rolled to a stop, it had added two priests, three women, a fireman, and several other hangers-on. Once across the causeway, Private Brougher drove under Mont Saint Michel’s ancient gates, over the drawbridge, and through the King’s Gate. The crowds pressed in. Everyone wanted to shake hands with their liberators. The Germans surrendered the island abbey without resistance. “I felt like President Roosevelt kissing all the babies,” he told the two reporters. His entrance marked the end of four years and two months of enemy occupation. “I’ve never seen so many people so pleased to see three total strangers,” Brougher said of the liberated French. MacGowan counted 25 girls kissing Brougher as he accepted six babies for kisses. It’s no surprise the private felt like a politician on the campaign trail. The only people lacking enthusiasm for Brougher’s presence were a handful of German soldiers too exhausted to care. Above the jeep, Mr. Molleau leaned out his window and took another picture, this one much clearer. German soldiers train in the shadow of Mont Saint Michel for Operation Sea Lion, the planned invasion of England. The joyous crowd escorted Private Brougher, with the reporters in tow, to the mayor’s parlor above the King’s Gate, where he was toasted with champagne, festooned with flowers, and carried on the crowd’s shoulders through the narrow, cobblestoned streets. He then signed the city’s Golden Book, which recorded a list of local nobility. MacGowan accompanied Brougher to La Mere Poulard Hotel, where the reporter signed the visitor’s book, penning a little hyperbole, “first American correspondent in Mt. St. Michel and the first of anybody with the liberation.” MacGowan credited Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley, the First Army commander, for making the liberation possible. “Private Brougher might never have reached this important natural curiosity and ancient monument of France had not an armored spearhead of General Bradley’s hard driving Army been occupying the attention of the Germans when [Freeman] left the mainland for Mont St. Michel.” MacGowan was correct. Omar Bradley was indeed responsible for the armored thrust, but he had some assistance from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., who had taken nominal command of Bradley’s VIII Corps a few days earlier and directed the 6th Armored Division’s drive into Brittany. German soldiers, exhausted by their retreat from Normandy, collapse on the cobbled streets of Mont Saint Michel. Patton had a connection with Mont Saint Michel. As a young lieutenant he visited it with his wife while studying swordsmanship at the French cavalry school in Samur. Private Brougher liberated it on the same day that Patton’s Third Army became operational. Although busy with pushing his army west, south, and east, Patton took the time to note in his diary, “The 6th Armored Division is at Pontorson, where Beatrice and I spent the night in 1913.” He obviously did not know yet that the abbey island had also been liberated. All the Frenchmen in the Mont had the same question for their liberators: How could they join the French Resistance? The women wanted to know what to do with collaborators. The priests wanted to know when the French Army would arrive to keep order. The collaborators were dealt with first. Male collaborators were put under lock and key; the abbey would serve as a prison for the first time since the French Revolution. The women collaborators had it worse. The town’s women tore the collaborators’ blouses off their backs and beat them with canes and sticks. The bruised and bleeding women fled for the safety of the ramparts while Private Brougher and the reporters begged the mayor to issue a proclamation calling for calm until authorities arrived. “The collaborators now definitely live on the wrong side of the railroad tracks forever,” reported MacGowan. Soon, M-8 armored scout cars arrived, and the soldiers dismounted to tour the newly liberated ancient wonder. Before Freeman left, he put two German prisoners on the hood of his jeep and drove them to a POW camp. Freeman Brougher (right) brought his wife (left) and children to Mont Saint Michel in the summer of 1987. MacGowan filed a story that day that appeared in the New York Sun, titled “Mont St. Michel Hails Its Liberator.” He referred to Brougher in the subtitle as “A Chauffeur for Sun Reporter.” Holt may have submitted a story to the London Daily Express, but no article appeared. The Express’s editors may have felt the story not important enough to appear in its pages, or possibly that it was too “American” for its British readers. His next story, about the siege of St. Malo—20 miles west of Mont Saint Michel—did not appear until the August 8 issue. While the American forces drove the Germans farther west, the Mont was still not immune from the war. A few days after its liberation a German plane crashed in flames some 200 meters from St. Aubert chapel, almost hitting the abbey. It was the last act of war for the Mont. It soon became a tourist attraction again, this time for the Americans. When the war ended, the locals removed the body of the Luftwaffe corporal from the cemetery and returned it to Germany. As for Private Brougher, liberating Mont Saint Michel was the highlight of his military service. He told his daughter Janet that the people called him “the savior of Mont Saint Michel.” After the war he returned home to Pennsylvania, where he became a high school business manager. He returned to Mont Saint Michel with his family in June 1987. Unfortunately, the mayor was away, so Brougher could not see the Golden Book he had signed 43 years earlier. Instead, he gave his wife, Frieda, and his children, Janet and James, a tour of the abbey he liberated. “He showed us everything that he had seen,” recalled Janet. Freeman Brougher would remain proud of his accomplishment until his death in 2003. Back to the issue this appears in
Mont Saint Michel is at the center of various myths and legends; it's not hard to understand why it inspired more than a few fairy-tales! Throughout the centuries, the Mont Saint Michel resisted religious wars, foreign invasions, devastating fires, wild storms, and relentless tides. Due to human activity and the passing of time, sand
1z7Mont-Saint-Michel, FrancjaGóra Św. Michała na zachodnim skraju Normandii to twór niezwykły - staje się wyspą podczas przypływów, a półwyspem, gdy morze się cofa, odsłaniając rozległe plaże (różnica poziomów sięga 14 m). Wyjątkowość otoczenia, burzliwa historia i wspaniała architektura powodują, że Mont-Saint-Michel pozostawia niezapomniane wrażenia. Wyspa jest jednym z najczęściej odwiedzanych miejsc we Francji, zaraz po Wieży Eiffla. Trudno się dziwić. Mont-Saint-Michel otacza aura mistyczności, wyczuwalna nawet w tłumie turystów. Courtesy of Źródło: Courtesy of Św. Michała na zachodnim skraju Normandii to twór niezwykły - staje się wyspą podczas przypływów, a półwyspem, gdy morze się cofa, odsłaniając rozległe plaże (różnica poziomów sięga 14 m). Wyjątkowość otoczenia, burzliwa historia i wspaniała architektura powodują, że Mont-Saint-Michel pozostawia niezapomniane wrażenia. Wyspa, zaraz po Wieży Eiffla, jest jednym z najczęściej odwiedzanych miejsc we Francji. W 1979 roku została wpisana listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO. Miejsce to otacza aura mistycyzmu wyczuwalna nawet w tłumie turystów. Dziś zapraszamy was w niezwykłą wirtualną podróż po tym magicznym zakątku Europy. Dzięki panoramie 360 stopni zobaczysz tę wyspę z zupełnie innej i niedostępnej dla wszystkich turystów perspektywy.
The tide is currently falling in Mont-Saint-Michel. As you can see on the tide chart, the highest tide of 10m was at 4:40pm and the lowest tide of 0.5m will be at 11:41pm. Click here to see Mont-Saint-Michel tide times for the week.
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Mont Saint-Michel bay is silting up. Had nothing been done, it would have filled in completely by 2040. So once the new causeway and bridge are built, the sea will once again flow freely, for most
Droga wiodła przez całą Francję. Warto było jednak pokonać tysiące kilometrów aby u brzegów Normandii zobaczyć budowlę noszącą miano "Cudu Zachodu". 30 Zobacz galerię Onet Wiktor Hugo nazwał Mont-Saint-Michel "cudowną piramidą, która raz włada piaszczystą pustynią jak Cheops, raz morzem jak skały Teneriffy". Sześć - osiem razy w ciągu roku wody oceanu podchodzą i obmywają wokół całą zabudowę wzgórza. Pozostaje tylko dojazd wąską groblą usypaną w XIX w. 1/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 1 Onet Mont St. Michel otaczają mury, które skutecznie obroniły miasto podczas wojny stuletniej. Anglicy kilkakrotnie, bezskutecznie oblegali twierdzę na wodzie. Miasto stało się symbolem francuskiego oporu przeciwko angielskiemu panowaniu w Normandii. 2/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 2 Onet Klasztor przez wiele wieków był stopniowo rozbudowywany, dziś stanowi okazałą, dominującą i z bardzo daleka widoczną budowlę. 3/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 3 Onet Mimo upływu wieków mury obronne zamku trzymają się świetnie. 4/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 4 Onet Usypana w XIX w. grobla stanowi jedyny dojazd do klasztoru, wszelkie pojazdy pozostają jednak na zewnątrz murów obronnych. 5/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 5 Onet Z klasztoru roztacza się niesamowity widok. Wokół widać tylko piaszczystą pustynię, na horyzoncie przy dobrej pogodzie można dostrzec ocean. 6/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 6 Onet Mury obronne podobnie jak wszystkie domy i klasztor zbudowane zostały z kamienia. Dzięki temu całość zabudowy wzgórza stanowi jednolity kolorystycznie zwarty monument, który ostro kontrastuje z otaczającą po horyzonty pustą przestrzenią. 7/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 7 Onet Mury wraz z basztami i zabudowaniami służącymi obronie niegdyś stanowiły dla najeźdźców przeszkodę nie do pokonania. 8/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 8 Onet Kolorowa zabudowa miejska ładnie kontrastuje z ciepłymi barwami kamiennych murów obronnych. 9/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 9 Onet Kamienne zaułki murów i baszt obronnych. 10/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 10 Onet Fragment miasta widziany z murów obronnych. 11/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 11 Onet Kamienne baszty i zabudowa murów obronnych pokryte drewnianym gontem. 12/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 12 Onet Drewno i kamień, z tych materiałów zbudowano Mont St. Michel. 13/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 13 Onet Potężny klasztor dominuje nad miastem. 14/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 14 Onet Prawie z każdego miejsca widać potężną budowlę klasztoru zwieńczoną wysoką iglicą z Archaniołem Michałem na jej szczycie. 15/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 15 Onet W VIII wieku Archanioł Michał nakazał biskupowi Aubert zbudowanie kaplicy w której mnisi mieli strzec jego cennych relikwii. Biskup początkowo się opierał, lecz gdy Archanioł zdecydowanie postukał biskupa w głowę ten bez wahania rozpoczął budowę i w ten sposób na niewysokiej skale powstała budowla symbolizująca harmonię przyrody i sztuki budowlanej. 16/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 16 Onet Iglica klasztoru sięga 155 m. Na jej szczycie umieszczono posąg Michała Archanioła. 17/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 17 Onet Stare w wielu miejscach omszałe mury, brak samochodów i jakiejkolwiek nowej zabudowy. Gdyby nie współcześnie ubrani turyści z aparatami fotograficznymi, można by odnieść wrażenie, iż czas w tym mieście zatrzymał się w piętnastym wieku. 18/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 18 Onet Miasto zajmuje obszar mniejszy niż 3 ha, posiada mniej niż dwustu stałych mieszkańców, lecz każdego roku przybywa tu ponad 1,6 mln. turystów. 19/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 19 Onet Monumentalne wejście z miasta do klasztoru - to przedsmak jego wielkości. 20/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 20 Onet Przejście do klasztoru 21/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 21 Onet Wnętrza klasztoru, jak przystało na miejsce medytacji są surowe, pozbawione wyszukanego przepychu. Panuje tu nastrój spokoju, powagi i wyciszenia. Wielkość budowli jak również wnętrz uświadamiają jak małą istotą jest człowiek wobec tego monumentu a jednocześnie jak wielką aby mógł to wspaniałe miejsce stworzyć. 22/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 22 Onet Sala rycerska z kominkami które ogrzewały znaczną część klasztoru. 23/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 23 Onet Zielony skwerek klasztoru otaczają arkady z mauretańską kolumnadą. 24/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 24 Onet Wjazdu do miasta strzeże brama z mostem zwodzonym. 25/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 25 Onet Uliczka w cieniu murów obronnych. 26/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 26 Onet Główna i właściwie jedyna ulica Grand Rue zabudowana jest kamieniczkami, które pamiętają XV wiek. Zabudowa miasta to prawie wyłącznie hotele, restauracje i sklepiki. 27/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 27 Onet W pełni letniego sezonu trochę tu ciasno lecz mimo to spacer wąskimi zaułkami pomiędzy domami wziętymi z bajek to prawdziwa przyjemność. 28/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 28 Onet Grand Rue, ulica bez pojazdów, chyba niewiele jest miast na świecie gdzie bruki ulic nie widziały koła. 29/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 29 Onet Restauracja ze szklaną ściana i widokiem na piaskową pustynię otaczającą miasto. 30/30 Galeria Francja - Zamek Mont Saint Michel, obrazek 30 Onet Nocą Mont St. Michel jest równie piękne, podświetlone kamieniczki i klasztor dostarczają naprawdę niezapomnianych wrażeń. Data utworzenia: 24 stycznia 2006 12:00 To również Cię zainteresuje Masz ciekawy temat? Napisz do nas list! Chcesz, żebyśmy opisali Twoją historię albo zajęli się jakimś problemem? Masz ciekawy temat? Napisz do nas! 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The Manoir de Brion, an ancient Benedictine priory of Mont Saint-Michel, is located in Dragey. Avranches is twinned with St. Helier in Jersey. On 2 March 2010 a Jersey-registered boat "Archangel" succeeded in reaching Avranches at Marcey-les-Grèves. It is believed this was the first instance of a foreign vessel reaching Avranches in modern times.
An unmistakable icon of the northern French coast, the UNESCO-listed Mont-Saint-Michel is a magical island crowned by a lofty medieval monastery, looming dramatically on the horizon and defying some of the highest tides in Europe. It was for centuries one of Europe’s major pilgrimage destinations and today, million tourists from around the world flock here every year. Where exactly in France is the Mont-Saint-Michel? How far is it from Paris? There is often confusion as to whether it belongs to Normandy or neighbouring Brittany, set in the bay where the two regions merge – but it’s Normandy that just stakes the claim. It belongs to the Manche department, and is situated 26km south-west of Avranches and 330km due west of Paris. To get there from Paris it’s a 4-hour drive, or you can take a train from Paris-Montparnasse to Pontorson–Mont-Saint-Michel, followed by a navette (shuttle bus) to the Mount itself. The long history of the Mount is thought to date back to 708, when Aubert, Bishop of Avranches, had a sanctuary built on Mont-Tombe in honour of the Archangel. Its development was in itself a miracle: boats transported granite from quarries in Chausey, a group of small islets off the Normandy coast, which was then cut into blocks and hauled to the top of the Mount. Through the medieval period several other imposing monastic buildings were added to the site and the main abbey became a centre of learning, attracting some of Europe’s greatest minds and manuscript illuminators. Scores of pilgrims visited but English forces were kept resolutely out by ramparts at sea level. © Sabina Lorkin - Anibas Photography - CRT Normandie — Cloister of the Abbey of the Mont-Saint-Michel The mount soon became a major focus of pilgrimage. In the 10th century, the Benedictines settled in the abbey, while a village grew up below its walls. By the 14th century it extended as far as the foot of the rock. An impregnable stronghold during the Hundred Years War, the Mont-Saint-Michel is also an example of military architecture. Its ramparts and fortifications resisted all the English assaults and as a result the Mount became a symbol of national identity. Following the dissolution of the religious community during the Revolution, and until 1863, the abbey was used as a prison. Classified as a historic monument in 1874, it underwent major restoration work. Since then, work has gone on regularly all over the site. The result is that visitors can now experience the splendour of the abbey that the people of the Middle Ages regarded as a representation of the heavenly Jerusalem on earth, an image of Paradise. The Mount has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1979. How have the tides affected the Mont-Saint-Michel? Over time, high tides and human interference caused silt to build up around the bay, and by 2006, the nearly landlocked Mount no longer resembled an island. A project to restore the mount to the sea was launched in the same year, with the operation of a new dam designed to gradually sweep away the silt and sand. The old parking area at the foot of the rock was demolished and moved to a new area near the bridge on the mainland, and the causeway followed suit, returning the Mount to its true island status. © E. Tessier CRT Normandie — View of Tombelaine from the ramparts of the Mont-Saint-Michel Visiting the Mont-Saint-Michel: what is there to see? This is a must-see French landmark and it’s worth allowing enough time to visit its accompanying museums, hotels, restaurants and boutiques. In addition to the abbey itself, don’t miss: The Musée de la Mer et de l’Écologie, housing a collection of 250 ancient boat models where you can learn about the Mont Saint-Michel Maritime Character Restoration project The Musée Historique, charting 1,000 years of history with its collection of ancient weapons, medieval instruments of torture, Louis XI’s iron cell and the oubliettes The Logis Tiphaine, the former home of Knight Bertrand du Guesclin – 14th-century constable of the armies of the French king – and his wife Tiphaine de Raguenel, a famous astrologer who used to predict the world’s fate by the stars. Find out more: 6 mysteries surrounding Mont-Saint-Michel How to spend a perfect family day out at Mont-Saint-Michel All you need to know about the Mont-Saint-Michel (External link)
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Road to Mont Saint-Michel. The drive from Paris to Mont Saint-Michel takes between 3.5 and 4 hours. One route is to take the A13 motorway in the direction of Caen, then merge onto the A84 motorway towards Avranches in the direction of Rennes. This is the most direct and quickest driving route from Paris to Mont Saint-Michel.
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The bus journey time between Paris and Le Mont-Saint-Michel is around 5h and covers a distance of around 353 km. This includes an average layover time of around 2 min. Operated by Blablabus and Navette Pontorson - Le Mont, the Paris to Le Mont-Saint-Michel bus service departs from Paris - Pont de Levallois and arrives in Mont Saint-Michel.
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