Explorer Le Mont Saint-Michel

Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey is the Benedictine abbey that crowns the rocky tidal island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy. Built from the 10th century onwards, it joins a Romanesque abbey church with the 13th-century Gothic buildings known as La Merveille. Visitors climb through the village to the church, the cloister, the refectory and the west terrace over the bay.

Alligator Bay is a reptile park in Beauvoir, near Mont-Saint-Michel, opened in 1994 as the Reptilarium du Mont-Saint-Michel. About 700 animals live in three areas: a tropical greenhouse with alligators, crocodiles and caimans, among them white alligators, a turtle farm with more than 400 tortoises and turtles, and a maze of lizard and snake enclosures.