Introduction to Mont-St-Michel

324km (201 miles) W of Paris, 129km (80 miles) SW of Caen, 76km (47 miles) E of Dinan, 48km (30 miles) E of St-Malo

Massive walls measuring more than half a mile in circumference surround one of Europe's great attractions, the island of Mont-St-Michel. Connected to the shore by a causeway, it crowns a rocky islet at the border between Normandy and Brittany. The rock is 78m (256 ft.) high.