Jardin des Plantes d'Avranches
Hilltop botanical garden with a relocated Romanesque chapel portal and sweeping views over the bay.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Jardin des Plantes in Avranches, above the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, is about a church door that stands in a flower garden with no church behind it. It reaches back to a small medieval chapel on the Sée estuary, where pilgrims came to Saint Hubert about rabies, and to the local scholars of the eighteen-forties who decided it was worth saving. Stand at the Romanesque arch near the view over the bay.
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