Guest Chamber, Merveille, Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy

The Guest Chamber, with a central row of columns and a double fireplace at the Western end serving as a kitchen, 1 of 3 dining halls lying one above the other in the Merveille, built 1203-28, to the North of the Abbey Church, built with a donation from the King of France, Philip Augustus, at Mont-Saint-Michel or St Michael's Mount, a tidal island housing a Benedictine abbey founded in 966, and other medieval buildings within strong defensive ramparts, Normandy, Northern France. Mont-Saint-Michel is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and its abbey and many other buildings are historic monuments. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13437341

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45126537

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7087px x 4724px (8.2MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen