A Millenary abbey church to browse, returns on an extraordinary site, an exceptional evening...
During the day, on the occasion of the European Heritage Days 2023, the Centre des monuments nationaux and the Etablissement public national du Mont-Saint-Michel offer you to browse the twenty rooms, terraces and gardens that count the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel. The primitive chapel Notre-Dame-sous-Terre will exceptionally open its doors that weekend.
You can take the opportunity to contemplate the exhibition "La demeure de l'archange" presented until November 5, 2023 as part of the Millennium of the construction of the Romanesque abbey church, top of the abbey.
This year 2023 is also marked by the end of the major restoration project initiated in autumn 2019 on the set of 13th century buildings called "The Wonder", two of the companies that worked for this extraordinary work will invite you to discover their know-how. Demonstration of hard stone cutting, soft stone and slate cover will punctuate the weekend.
Two public lectures will be offered:
Restoration work at Mont Saint-Michel | 2002-2023 Looking back on 21 years of career
by François Jeanneau, Chief Architect of Historic Monuments
On reservation - Salle Belle Chaise, Saturday 16 September at 3pm
The restoration work of the facades and roofs of the Merveille | 2020-2023
by Elen Cadiou, Project Manager specialist in architectural archaeology - Inrap Bretagne
On reservation - Salle Belle Chaise, Sunday 17 September at 3pm
In the evening, these 40th European Heritage Days will be one of the highlights of the Millennium of the abbey church with the free show of vertical dance, shadows and large format images "Ascending currents" given on the rock. On September 15 and 16, 2023 at 9 p.m., the Retouramont company will bring out upward currents that will carry the dancers from the strike to the arrow. Large zip lines will create new vertical paths for dancers. Their shadows will multiply on the ramparts, the high facades up to the spire of the abbey.