From monk to mayor: The guardians of France's Mont Saint-Michel • FRANCE 24 English

Known as the Wonder of the West, Mont Saint-Michel looks as if it could have been plucked from a fairytale. The religious sanctuary on France's Normandy coast turns 1,000 this year. Since the first stone was laid in 1023, it has been home to monks, monarchs and prisoners; a historic pilgrimage site that welcomes 3 million visitors each year. In this edition we meet some of the people who preserve its magic.
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[celdiomampo]

Majestic and there last April 2022 and it's one of the best places I had the privilege to visit.Hoping to come back again one of these days.

[randallhill]

What a gorgeous place and very interesting. Thanks for the video 👍

[leeharwood]

What i find sad is that everywhere would have been this beautiful way back then .instead of horrible steel and glass bores

[ilhuicatlamatini]

Love it, have been wanting to visit for ages. Hope to take a trip sometime soon.

[linhtruong]

Can’t wait to go there this September and will stay overnight. So incredible view and magical!

[turingmachine]

Very well done. I didn’t know there were still monks and nuns there. I think a visit at Christmas would be wonderful.

[shiva]

Thanks for “clearing up” the Normandy/Brittany debate! Good to know I was not the only one confused about that.

[fabiodeoliveiraribeiro]

1000 years old. Much younger than the Pyramids of Egypt and obviously much smaller than the oldest Great Wall of China. Mount St Michel is a medieval French version of the Acropolis in Athens.

[justinkrann]

I plan to stay in one of the hotels on the island to wonder through out the night when its a ghost town!