Normandy is not only a silent witness to World War II, but also home to spectacular cliffs and charming medieval towns. From the architectural wonder of Mont Saint-Michel to the white cliffs of ...

Mont-Saint-Michel, a tiny island in France, is a top fairy-tale destination famed for its Gothic abbey. Once a major pilgrimage site, Mont-Saint-Michel is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of medieval ...

What was called the "high tide of the century', the waters came in, as predicted, and flooded the road leading to the famous Mont Saint-Michel Abbey. Floodwaters ...

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 the poet Victor Hugo called the “Khéops of the West” has ...

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 ...

The historic—and fragile—island abbey is France’s most visited site outside of Paris. As it heads into its millennium year, a new sustainable development plan aims to protect it for the future. This ...

Last month, visitors and residents of the Mont Saint-Michel Abbey, roughly 225 miles west of Paris, found themselves quickly cut off from the mainland, surrounded by the rising waters. The Associated ...

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 ...

New hydraulic dam freeing Mont-Saint-Michel from sand Hilltop abbey becoming an island again during high tide MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France, June 5 (Reuters) - A new dam and infrastructure works have ...

A May 5 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of the French landmark Mont Saint-Michel alongside a CNN story about the century-old citadel. Additional text included in the post ...