Situated just off the shore-line at Marazion, St Michael's Mount is one of the most popular of the National Trust's properties in Cornwall. It is reached at low tide by a causeway and by ferry boat at other times.

The history of the Mount goes back very far. St Michael the Archangel is said to have appeared to a hermit. In 490 St Keyne is said to have come on a pilgrimage from Ireland to the spot where the angel appeared. Edward the confessor granted it to the Abbey of St Michael off the Normandy coast (France) and a Priory of Benedictine's was established.

More recently, in 1659, Colonel John St Aubyn purchased the Mount from Sir Aurther Basset. Eventually, in 1954, the Mount was given to The Trust.

It, together with Land's End, are probably the two most famous and visited parts of the county of Cornwall.