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 ...

Experience Mont Saint Michel through a calm 3D aerial virtual perspective, revealing one of France’s most iconic landmarks as ...

PARIS, France — We're taking you to one of the most popular attractions in the Olympic host country. When we started planning our WTHR Olympic pre-trip, we kept seeing this incredible place on a tidal ...

I love to scamper, at low tide, shoes in my hands, far from shore, across the mudflat in the vast Bay of Mont St-Michel. Splashing across black sand and through little puddles, I head for a dramatic ...

STANDING on a small wooden platform way up in the treetops, I don’t want to make the leap. My next foothold will be another ...

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 ...

Damien O’Connor had not been to France for three decades, and he had only traveled to the country once before. However, between Oct. 18 and 20, O’Connor, the vice president for evangelization and ...

MONT SAINT-MICHEL, France — The sound of prayer flowed around the centuries-old abbey atop the Mont Saint-Michel, a tidal islet amidst vast sandbanks off France’s northwest coast, drifting down ...

PARIS — France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel has reached a ripe old age. It has been 1,000 years since the first stone was put in place. The millennial of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and ...