Year after year, around 3.5 million people flock to a place that seems to have sprung from a fairy tale - yet is entirely real: Mont-Saint-Michel. The former Benedictine abbey in France's Normandy ...

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 ...

This tiny island, one of France’s UNESCO World Heritage sites, rises dramatically above its surroundings, with its impressive abbey and medieval village reaching 92 meters (302 feet) above the bay.

Exactly 1,000 years ago this month, construction started on a magnificent island building off the coast of France that, as it rose improbably from the choppy waters of the Atlantic Ocean, would become ...