Mount Saint-Michel

In the early years of Christendom, the flatlands stretching out between the Cotentin peninsula and the Cancale heights were covered by the large Scissy forest. Several times already since the Dawn of Time this land had been covered by the sea, which had then retreated quite far away during glaciations, allowing erosion to shape the landscape over millions of years : a wide and flat stretch of land from which three, or maybe four huge blocks of rock of a very hard type - granite or granulite - emerged. These had resisted the wear and tear of the ocean better than surrounding rocks. Mont Tombe, later called Mont-Saint-Michel, was one of these.