The rock from the salt meadows, the bridge at low water, the Gothic choir inside the abbey church and the gilded archangel on the spire. Photographs of the island these departures visit.
Every photograph here was taken on or beside the island these mont saint michel and its bay tours departures reach — the causeway and the Pont-passerelle, the ramparts, the Grande Rue and the abbey at the top of it.
The Gothic block against the north face is La Merveille, and what each of these looks like from the inside is set out there. The landscape around them — the UNESCO property, the polders and the dam — is on the bay.
The bay Mont Saint-Michel seen along the causeway at low tide, with the islet of Tombelaine on the horizonThe Mont The whole of Mont Saint-Michel from the salt meadows, the abbey and spire above the walled villageGetting there Visitors walking the Pont-passerelle towards Mont Saint-Michel above the salt marshThe Mont The ramparts and the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel from the wet sand at low waterThe Mont Mont Saint-Michel rising from the tidal flats, the fortified walls and village roofs below the abbeyThe village The granite rock and the ramparts of Mont Saint-Michel seen from the esplanade at the entranceThe bay Mont Saint-Michel under evening cloud from the causeway, a cyclist on the road belowThe abbey The abbey spire of Mont Saint-Michel and Frémiet’s gilded archangel, seen from the village belowThe abbey The Gothic windows of La Merveille and the abbey spire from the foot of the rampartsThe abbey The flamboyant Gothic choir inside Mont Saint-Michel abbey church, rebuilt after the Romanesque choir collapsed in 1421
See it for yourself
A photograph of the tide going out is a photograph. Standing on the west terrace while it happens is a different thing.
