PARIS – French President Francois Hollande has visited the ancient abbey Mont-Saint-Michel to inaugurate the bridge meant to ensure the site's island status, finalizing 10 years of construction. The ...

PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande has visited the ancient abbey Mont-Saint-Michel to inaugurate the bridge meant to ensure the site’s island status, finalizing 10 years of construction.

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 ...

Thousands flocked to catch sight of a stunning supertide in northern France that turned a majestic 11th century abbey into a spectacular medieval island. The “mascaret” wave, which wondrously bathes ...

One island community is so iconic to France that this year’s Tour de France bicycle race kicked off from this location: Le Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy. From a distance, the rocks and spired tower ...

Michel, one of France’s most iconic landmarks and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This stunning medieval island village rises ...

France's famous Mont Saint-Michel was turned into an island by a 'supertide' on Saturday. Thousands of tourists visited the attraction as the so-called 'tide of the century' rushed in and out along ...

A record-breaking crowd gathered at the rocky island topped with a Gothic Benedictine abbey to watch the sea surge up the bay on the Normandy coast, which is exposed to some of Europe’s strongest ...

MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France — A new dam and infrastructure works have saved the famous Mont-Saint-Michel abbey’s status as an island by reversing the silting up of its bay, French President Emmanuel ...

MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France (Reuters) - A new dam and infrastructure works have saved the famous Mont-Saint-Michel abbey's status as an island by reversing the silting up of its bay, French President ...