What You Might Not Know About Mont-Saint-Michel - France's Famous Monastery
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Mont-Saint-Michel is steeped in mystery: Its construction alone is perplexing - a monastery built atop a steep crag in the middle of a bay. Surrounded by water at high tide, at low tide you can walk across the tidal flats to visit it. Mont-Saint-Michel is one of France's most visited locations, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Have you ever been there?
00:00 Intro
01:01 How to get there and when is the best time?
01:34 How they built it
02:21 Dangerous surrounding
03:08 The architecture of Mont-Saint-Michel
04:39 Inhabitants: monks and nuns
05:19 The darkest secret of the abbey
06:07 A deeply mysterious place
CREDITS:
Report: Jana Oertel
Camera: Jérémie Eloy
Editing: Christian Kahle
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I visited Mont St Michel in 1979 and I can still recall the visit as if it were yesterday. What an awesome bit of architecture. Magnifique!
My ancestors lived about 20 kilometers from here through the early 18th century. I imagine that they must have seen this. It’s on my bucket list to visit the Abbey. I hope I won’t have to wait too much longer. I’m in my 70’s now, lol
Well hurry up before you die lol
Not too many monuments get to celebrate 1000 years of existences.
I've been there and the history is fascinating. Thank you DM Travel for this feature!
I've been to Paris in 1990. But that was all I got to see of France. I hope to go here some day. The history is fascinating. Thank you.
France is a beautiful place - and not just the major cities.
One of the most extraordinary places in the world!
we have been there twice and it is fantastic. We went during off season when it was not as crowded.
Yeah, go Dec/Jan.. it’s like having the place to yourself ! Unfortunately a lot of little Restaurants/Shops are closed then, but it’s not why you’re there. Also if you stay you’ll most likely get a way better room for like $80
Thank you
Hotel or hostel? It's on my bucket list, either this September or next spring
Mont Saint-Michel was built in record time, thinking that each stone was cut and then transported and lifted manually is just fascinating. They were real building geniuses. Nowadays nobody, whether in France or elsewhere, can build such a cathedral even with computers, cranes and trucks just like the pyramids of Egypt.
Nobody *will fund* such a cathedral but they most certainly could build it.
The monastery was built. Not the Mont. This is the only iron mont known to people so far. At a certain time, it comes in perfect alignment with the iron mountain on the Moon.
@@violetadan4051 for sure, by saying Mont Saint-Michel I meant the monastery and not the small island.
I visited ten years ago, the place is really incredible. The causeway wasn't completed. Be warned, the island is swarming with so many tourists that it is hard to really appreciate the structure. Take the guides advice and visit in winter because July and August are high season.
Is a place that I would love to visit all the time ❤ the story behind and the people who made this stunning architecture beyond compares. The history
I am French Mexican and find Mont Saint Michael amazing in its Beauty and magic!!
Spent a couple of nights here for my 30th birthday, it is truly breathtaking!
Been there last May 2023. Such a fascinating place.
Mont St Michel was one of my best travels in my life
I live near by, trust me locals don't go to the bay without a guide, quicksands are real. best is to sleep there as it is a city, there is hotels. And the evening/night you can go near thr Abbey and enjoy the Mount and the view it is so peacefull at night.
Stayed in the island for 5 days , beautiful and enchanting place ❤ thank you
They had hotels?
In the old priory IF you are approved(must be Catholic and make a donation)
Monks and nuns live in the abbey. There are also 28 residents total. Some are lay people who have owned property for generations....that's how we stayed there in an air bnb. Expensive, but worth it! Totally empty at night.
That’s why I love Christian people artitectures
I visited in 2012. It was magical. If all goes according to plan, I will visit again in 2024!!!
The guide told me in 2013 when i visited this magnificent piece of history "before you dire you MUST come back and visit the Mont Saint Michel during a big storm, there is nothing better on earth". So I told myself i would do it someday, but how, thats the question. Apart from being super lucky, i dont see ... Maybe come back during winter?
I have been in Mont Saint Mitchell in 2021 which is amazing. How could the monks know many centuries later tourists will flock in droves. My tour director told us don’t walk into the sands.
Are there areas of quicksand?
Religious pilgrimages were the tourism of those times, these sites drew tons of visitors, worshippers, and the commerce followed along. These projects boosted the economy other than spreading the faith, and they also spread culture and technical / architectural innovations. Sometimes, they also served as armed strongholds
I went there in 2017 it was the highlight of my holiday. Amazing place.
Do you like France ?
Saint Michael the Archangel defend us in battle 🙏
Went there in May of 2023. Amazing place.
Been there. It’s fascinating.
It’s a place on my bucket list
I hope someday i can visit mont Saint Michel 😇🙏❤️
De las construcciones más hermosas que mis ojos han podido ver! Estuve allí en mayo de 2023 y quedará en mi memoria para toda la vida
What a wonderful video ❤
Advice : spend a night inside to feel the place with no tourist, late in night and early morning, avoid shop and choose wisely the restaurant with care, as it is full tourist price and quality… but an experience in life.
It's amazing construction
Show up at 4:00pm and stay on the island. Hotels are pretty reasonable. As you arrive everyone will be leaving and you’ll have the streets and restaurants to yourself. Then get up and be first to visit the Abbey in the morning with nobody around. Don’t just take a day trip from Paris.
BEAUTIFUL 👍 👌
Going there back in 2004 was amazing, with no social media or mass amounts of people.
Wonderful
C’est le plus beau monument de France.
1) Mont Saint-Michel
2) Notre-Dame
3) Versailles
bucket list
Excellent and interesting video about this place. Love it. Thank you.
Welcome! Stay tuned!
I would love to see this. Just think how hard it was to make this. No labor unions or safety back then.
Very much worth seeing at least once!
Yeah guessing quite a few people died making it though. If want see modern creations with dead workers the middle east awaits.
If labour unions were involved it would never have been built.
The laborers who built this abbey had to haul and carry those granite rocks by hand or on their backs ontop of the mountain. The stones was taken from the nearby island and the mainland thru a barge. It took 60 years to complete this marvel which was started in the 10th century.
There were pretty much guilds and organized craftsmen workforce, and the architects actually contributed to the physical work too, at least until the 13-14 century, being more of master builders.
There were also strikes and revolts during the construction process at times.
Most projects were co-financed by multiple subjects, including the clergy, nobility, and rich merchants, and sometimes by the common people as well (other than through church offers).
So it worked quite better than today
If you're stuck in quicksand with a rapidly rising tide ya I'd say that could be dangerous. If your out there alone you qualify to possibly get a Darwin award.
Love it😍🎶💃🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🎶
I went here 40 years ago even in those days it was so crowded it was difficult to get around. However, my abiding memory of the place was the shops selling dreadful tourist tat
We didn't stay long as you could see much due to the hoards of visitors. The best views were seeing it from the main road on the mainland
Nice video!
I recently discovered that "actually" seems to be a fill-in word for non-native english speakers. They over-use it quite alot.
I had first seen it in Onimusha 3 video game and didn't know it existed in real until I saw this video. Great and beautiful architecture ❤
I wanna visit there so bad. One day i will
One day I dream to visit
I will visit this mystical place
5:00 for a second I thought it’s the game of throne theme song 😅
my dream to visit it. :)
Location.❤ Location.❤
Location. ❤
Would love to visit. ❤❤❤
It's not even complete. A portion remained unfinished
It then turned into a prison during the Revolution
Bottom left hand corner i saw that 😮
“ItS a SoCiAl MediA sEnSAtIOn” no it’s not. People just ruin it.
Social media sensationalisation is for wankers
Go in January. Bring a winter coat.
I was a guide and took tours to mont st Michel and learned from a local historian that there were always droves of people. Originally pilgrims, today tourists. This is what allowed this marvel to exist.
People also built it.
@@kimberlysulit220 HOW?
*_Hogwarts School for Wizardry_* from Harry Potter in real life be like !!!
3:58. Oh my freaking god
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Let’s start making beautiful things again.
Need to bring back people's faith. People built these things for God.
Am I crazy, or is something crawling out of the wall at 5:51?
The guide is hard to hear. Turn the unnecessary music off.
Could you make videos about Luxembourg?
We will think about it. We are always happy to receive suggestions from the community.
The inspiration for Minas Tirith.
I was ther
😊
hey
I will go in December when no one is around.
I’m curious if Mont St Michel has facilities or… events? For pilgrims.
There is the "maison du pelerin" (pilgrim's house) on the mount (one night max) and other accommodations around
Sniper Elite 5?
Mont-Saint-Michel is a "social media sensation"??? Its a lot more than that, Bucko.
What You Might Not Know About France's Famous Monastery 1432pm 17.5.23 just thinking, then.... if music can aid with one's health that most overweight folk must have been engaging with prog rock!!!
At the Mont-Saint-Michel , the monks were the first to translate Ancient Greek Philosophic works to European language! 100 years before the Muslims! And of course the Muslims that did translate some works later were also Greeks that had to chose between death and converting to Islam! For the seekers of the Truth reed Sylvain Gouguenheim Book Aristote au mont Saint-Michel!
La prison du Mont, message : il ne faut pas y faire des cauchemars en soi, dans la vie.
the ending felt so rushed?
If there's no Starbucks I won't last the day
Sorry for you...
If you need your dose of sugar and caffeine that bad there is enough crêpes au caramel beurre salé to give you more diabetes than you already have and you can ask for a Café there too but i guess you would be too lazy to go there by foot anyway.
@@ommsterlitz1805 Unfortunately I generally don't eat sugary things. I do like black coffee since it helps me concentrate. I like to stretch my legs when my ship pulls in, but didn't realize this was supposed to be an extreme activity either. The more you know I guess.
@@Jason-fm4my Starbucks is literally filled with sugars you clearly crave it because you have some type of diabetes
I was there with a girlfriend in 95 and she wasn't let into the church at the top because she was wearing shorts.
Remember god endorses pedophiles and scam artists but ppl in shorts is where he draws the line! Moral values are so important to the Church, after all.
Of course. You can't go in any church unless covered. Church etiquette.
Dark souls thing
OUR LADY OF FÁTIMA, I BEG YOU TO CONVERT, CATECHIZE & SAVE POPE FRANCIS AND HIS "WOKE" CARDINALS, BISHOPS APPOINTED BY THE POPE🙏
WE NEED YOUR EMERGENCY
Our Lady Untier of Knots,
"UNTIE Pope Francis and his " KNOTTS" & "his appointees"
Of all the ...
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, 🤦🏽♀️💦
Ah, a beautiful place, I've been there.......in Sniper Elite 5. The Germans were unfriendly, though...
Normandie 💪✊ >> Bretagne
One wonders if global warming will eventually make it so only boats can reach it easily.
jokes on you i know nothing about mont-saint-michel
Disappointing! Video is too short!
Azkaban
The left would say: terrorising place!
no...?
Guessing not very familiar with french left
So... what were the secrets? what a waste of 6 min
If you weren’t paying attention… yes, no secrets were revealed. SMH
Boring. I want to go to places where people cant go
Any suggestions? :)
Stop ruining the historic thing
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I have to poop