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11 juin 2007

Saint Michael's Mount

Saint Michael's Mount
Saint Michael's Mount….Who didn't dream of him? Reflexions after a visit with the mount of a fellow traveller… Calou, we miss you! “Dragon of the Sky, Dragon of the Earth ..... or a dream of dragon to sweep the apparent Manicheism of the principal representations...
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11 juin 2007

Crowned geography of the Michael's Mount

Crowned geography of the Michael's Mount
One can note that many old places of worship dedicated before to Anubis were it then in Gargantua, Lug-Hermès-Mercury, Apollo-Bélénos, then in the Michaelmas to finish. the principal sanctuaries which are dedicated to him align according to a direction...
11 juin 2007

Tombelaine

Tombelaine
Contemporaries of the Armorican solid mass, the rocks of the Holy Mount Michel and Tombelaine appeared approximately five hundred million years ago. Resulting from crumpling hercynien, these two granulite cones, which answers the Dol mount a few kilometres...
11 juin 2007

The abbey

The abbey
It was cut down by three spans and was closed of a new neo-classic frontage in 1780. On the terrase which remains in the place of the three spans, one still can mesurerles three points of lowering marking the passage of the Jordan and the entry in the...
11 juin 2007

The crypt of the large pillars

The crypt of the large pillars
Built of 1446 to 1450 on the site of the Romance crypt éffondrée in 1421.Les pillars are 10, with a circumference of 6m. They sat with same the rock. The pointed arches are connected low on the barrels of the columns, by group of three, like going to...
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11 juin 2007

The cloister

The cloister
Arranged between 1217 and 1228, it and of trapezoidal form. The southern side communicates with the abbey one whereas the side is dessert the refectory and the kitchens. In the west, it would have to be pressed on a chapter house which built forever....
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