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#18 Mont-Saint-Michel, France
This magical building was built on a granite rock in the La Manche canal tide, one kilometer from the Normandy coast of France. Interestingly, it is accessible on foot at low tide. According to the legends, in 708, Archbishop of St. Michael, who was the bishop of Avranches, had ordered him to build a monastery out of the sea on a rock. Two hundred years later the island was occupied by the Normans, so the monastery is characterized by Norman architectural styles. During the French Revolution, the Benedictine monastery was closed, and the building continued as a prison.