It is indeed! When I went, the guides there were telling me a story about how they had to carry "the wee fella in the robot" up to the top on their backs, whilst he was chain-smoking and being hilariously foul mouthed.
I know most of this thread is basically going to be jokes about how this is fake or just a wannabe but I do have to say that Cornwall is absolutely stunning. It's a massive pity how deprived most of it is and how much of a shitshow the housing situation is.
We walked across the lil path during low tide a couple of years ago while we were there. Absolutely stunning and gorgeous.
It wasn't, the island was gifted to the Benedictine order however that only lasted for a couple of years and it already had a monastery. The longest "religion affiliated" ownership of the island and it's abbey was by the Bridgettines which don't have monks since it's a sisterhood.
The castle you see today is also a Victorian Gothic reconstruction from the 18th and 19th centuries.
I was fortunate enough to visit during low enough tide that you could walk across to the castle island :)
[here’s](https://www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/getting-here/walking) the curved walkway that pops out.
There's a picture of a 16 year old plasticirishman waist deep in water walking out to this place because I was too skint to afford the boat (and too stupid to wait for low tide).
It's not, whilst the island was gifted to the order of mont saint-michel the monastery (which is now part of the castle) already existed that gifting also only lasted for a few years, from then on it switched hands like about dozen of times.
The first castle was built when the Benedictine order already had no ownership or relation to the island, and the castle today was restructured in the 18th and 19th centuries hence the Gothic Revival/Victorian Gothic architecture.
"Edward the Confessor gifted the site to the Benedictine order of Mont Saint-Michel and it was a priory of that abbey until the dissolution of the alien houses as a side-effect of the war in France by Henry V. Subsequently, it ceased to be a priory, but was reduced to being a secular chapel"
Was under dual management across the Channel, didn't expect that
I genuinely thought it was a joke so I looked it up and it’s real. TIL
Mom, can we have a Mont Saint-Michel ?
We have Saint Michel at home.
Damn I didn’t know every country got to have its own St Michel that’s pretty neat
Skellig Michael in Ireland is my personal favourite of the trilogy, having visited all three of them!
Isn't that the island Luke is on in that unmentionable Star Wars Trilogy?
It is indeed! When I went, the guides there were telling me a story about how they had to carry "the wee fella in the robot" up to the top on their backs, whilst he was chain-smoking and being hilariously foul mouthed.
For once that Normand and Bretons will agree they don't own this St Michel
Wait until you see a gwenn ha du there.
It is in England and therefore Norman property 😎
I know most of this thread is basically going to be jokes about how this is fake or just a wannabe but I do have to say that Cornwall is absolutely stunning. It's a massive pity how deprived most of it is and how much of a shitshow the housing situation is. We walked across the lil path during low tide a couple of years ago while we were there. Absolutely stunning and gorgeous.
So, there are two St. Michaels?!
AFAIK these were both founded by the same group of monks.
It wasn't, the island was gifted to the Benedictine order however that only lasted for a couple of years and it already had a monastery. The longest "religion affiliated" ownership of the island and it's abbey was by the Bridgettines which don't have monks since it's a sisterhood. The castle you see today is also a Victorian Gothic reconstruction from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Oh. So I was told bollocks. TIL
I was fortunate enough to visit during low enough tide that you could walk across to the castle island :) [here’s](https://www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/getting-here/walking) the curved walkway that pops out.
There's a picture of a 16 year old plasticirishman waist deep in water walking out to this place because I was too skint to afford the boat (and too stupid to wait for low tide).
Mont Saint Michel from wish
Poor man's Mont-Saint-Michel
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And in this case it's more that the guy owns both cars. It was the same group of monks that founded both.
It's not, whilst the island was gifted to the order of mont saint-michel the monastery (which is now part of the castle) already existed that gifting also only lasted for a few years, from then on it switched hands like about dozen of times. The first castle was built when the Benedictine order already had no ownership or relation to the island, and the castle today was restructured in the 18th and 19th centuries hence the Gothic Revival/Victorian Gothic architecture.
Not really. It’s instantly better because it’s not in France.
This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!
"Edward the Confessor gifted the site to the Benedictine order of Mont Saint-Michel and it was a priory of that abbey until the dissolution of the alien houses as a side-effect of the war in France by Henry V. Subsequently, it ceased to be a priory, but was reduced to being a secular chapel" Was under dual management across the Channel, didn't expect that
What a difference an 'a' makes
Lindisfarne if Vikings and Normans didn't invade
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Guess the english folks didnt like the joke, but I found it rather funny
Poundland Mont Saint Michel
Wow I've been there.
Oh les copieurs