Passerelle d'accès au Mont Saint-Michel
Slender stilted footbridge over the tidal bay, built so the sea can flow freely around the abbey rock.
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This guide to the access footbridge of Mont-Saint-Michel starts with the causeway laid across the bay in eighteen seventy-nine, and with what a solid road quietly did to the most famous island in France. It follows the engineers who decided the road itself was the problem, and the architect Dietmar Feichtinger's idea of walking on water. Best heard standing on the oak deck, facing the abbey.
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