France: Mont Saint Michel Abbey

The Mont Saint Michel Abbey is located within the city and island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Lower Normandy. The abbey is an essential part of the structural composition of the town the feudal society constructed. On top, God, the abbey, and monastery; below this, the Great halls, then stores and housing, and at the bottom (outside the walls), fishermen's and farmers' housing. The first text about an abbey is the 9th-century Latin text Revelatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis in monte Tumba written by a chanoine living at Mont Saint Michel or at the Cathédrale Saint-André d'Avranches. The abbey has been protected as a French monument historique since 1862. Since 1979, the site as a whole, the Mont Saint-Michel and its bay – has been a UNESCO world heritage site. The abbey is among the most visited cultural sites in France. Source: Wikipedia