On day 6, we visit Mont Saint-Michel, a UNESCO world heritage site and the most popular tourist attractions in France. The abbey is constructed with the abbey and monastery on top; below this, the great halls, then stores and housing, and at the bottom (outside the walls), fishermen’s and farmers’ housing. The abbeys position—on an island just a few hundred meters from land—made it accessible at low tide to the many pilgrims to its abbey, but defensible as an incoming tide stranded, drove off, or drowned would-be assailants.
