Legend of Mont St. Michel

I’ve always found Mont Saint Michel to be such a mystical and amazingly beautiful place. Funny thing is that I’ve been to many places and I still didn’t go there but I always felt like I should and I will!

Legend of Mont Saint Michel:
“Devil was furious when Mont St Michel was built and full of resentment towards St Michael to whom the monastery was dedicated. The Devil and St Michael agreed to compete for ownership of the Mount, which the Devil claimed to be his and
decided that whoever could jump the furthest would win. The Devil fell into the River Couënon but the air lifted St. Michael’s wings and he was swept to Mont Dol. On one of the rocks of Mont Dol there is the footprint of St. Michael and the claw mark of the Devil. "

“As surprised, as if I had discovered the habitation of a God, I wandered through those halls supported by frail or massive columns, raising my eyes in wonder to those spires which looked like rockets starting for the sky, and to that marvellous assemblage of towers, of gargoyles, of slender and harming ornaments, a regular fireworks of stone, granite lace, a masterpiece of colossal and delicate architecture.”
Guy De Maupassant-The Legend of Mont St.-Michel