Mont Saint-Michel Castle .. The third most famous tourist attraction in France - get to know them

Mont Saint-Michel Castle .. The third most famous tourist attraction in France - get to know them

Mont Saint-Michel Castle .. The third most famous tourist attraction in France - get to know them

On an island near the coast of Normandy and Brittany near the city of northern France is the third French-month tourist attraction,

Alone attracts four million tourists a year, although it is isolated and linked to the mainland only by a narrow bridge

It Castle of Mont-Saint-Michel, which has been for a long time away from the attention and interest of isolation on the island.

Unlike the French castles, all of which were built for defensive purposes in the first place, the Mont Saint-Michel Castle built for another purpose,

To be a monastery for worship, and over the centuries has changed its function more than once to be completely stopped and became a place to visit, it is today an important tourist site in France,

This castle show in the movies, graphics, and even in computer games when he referred to France.

The Mont Saint-Michel Castle of the most famous places registered in the World Heritage of UNESCO since 1979 due to its ancient history and the history of the place in it,

Through this place before the castle was built there an old church lived by hundreds of monks

Who were detained from the British during the war with France, which is also called the Hundred Years War.

The building was completed castle year 1521 after several centuries of construction,

With the advent of the seventeenth century was the impact of monasteries and churches almost disappears from the lives of people in Europe,

This increased after the French Revolution, turned Castle Mont-Saint-Michel to prison,

Over the days, the condition worsened until the year 1873 and regained its glory again some renovations and repairs.