It looks like something you`d see on the front of a science fiction magazine. It rises out of the hard sand like a needle-tipped monster. The abbey of Mont-St-Michel sits on a rough granite island ...

For more than a thousand years, the distant silhouette of Mont Saint-Michel has sent pilgrims’ spirits soaring. Today, it does the same for tourists. This island abbey in the Normandy region of France ...

The island abbey of Mont St-Michel, one of the top pilgrimage sites of Christendom through the ages, floats like a mirage on the horizon, just off the Norman coast of France. For more than a thousand ...

It was exactly a millennium ago that the first stone of the abbey church of Mont Saint-Michel, in French Normandy, was laid. The monument that poet Victor Hugo called the “Khéops of the West” has ...

Up until a few years ago, quirky Mont St. Michel, a tidal island (tides vary as much as 50 feet) located off the coast of Normandy, France, was in danger of losing its maritime identity. In the 8th ...

Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France, is celebrating its 1,000th birthday this year. The abbey has endured wars, high tides, and centuries of wear and tear from residents and tourists. It's a UNESCO ...

I love to scamper, at low tide, shoes in my hands, far from shore, across the mud flat in France’s vast Bay of Mont St. Michel. Splashing across black sand and through little puddles, I head for the ...

On the wide expanse of France's northern coast, a vast gothic and Romanesque basilica rises above a rocky island, its dark steeple piercing the summer sky. In the foreground, sheep graze stubbornly on ...

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