Cloître de l'abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel
Rooftop Gothic cloister garden ringed by staggered twin colonnettes, suspended high above the bay.
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This guide to the cloister of the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel looks at the thirteenth-century garden gallery as a feat of building, starting from a count of its columns that does not quite add up. It follows the monks who finished it around twelve twenty-eight, the problem of what lies beneath the lawn, and a costly stone shipped in from England. Stand in the gallery, where you can see both the ceiling and the staggered rows of columns.
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