With more than one million paying entries per annum, the Michaelmas Mount is the cultural site more visited of Normandy. The wonder of the Abbey is classified with the 9eme national row (source ODIT France)
The St-Michel Mount records an addition of visitors at the periods of spring tides, as it is the case in this moment. The spectacle of the rising tide, of the become again Mount island, visit even more unforgettable.
It is to the Mount-Saint-Michel that one can observe the spring tides of continental Europe: the sea is withdrawn to 18 km on the sides and goes up with an increasingly fast speed. For seeing the floods well arriving "at the speed of a horse au.galop", it is necessary to be in the Mount-Saint-Michel two hours before the high tide.

But of course one comes especially to the mount Saint Michel for the abbey, centers pilgrimage since centuries. All the year, one visits this chief of work of architecture Norman. To also see, the wax museum (Grévin museum) to the foot of the abbey, the archéoscope, multi-media spectacle on the history of the Mount, the Maritime Museum, the Tiphaine Home, in the house of Of Guesclin (1320 -1380), advanced defenses of the borough, the main street, the ramparts, and the gardens of the abbey. Lastly, to discover the Mount differently, of the night walks are proposed by the National Case of the Historic buildings and the Sites.

Le Mont Saint Michel is situated at 15 mn of ferme saint christophe

Cancale: 20 mn
Saint Malo: 30 mn
Dinan: 30 mn
Granville: 45 mn
Le Mont Saint Michel: 15 mn
Dol de bretagne: 10 mn
Avranches: 30 mn
Rennes 45 mn