Mont Saint-Michel, Scanning the Wonder

Over the centuries, Mont Saint-Michel, an extraordinary island located in the delta of the Couesnon River, in Normandy, France, a place floating between the sea and the sky, has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison. But how was this architectural wonder built?

• architecture
• reference to aristotle
• reference to cicero
• reference to pliny the elder
• reference to virgil