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 ...

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 ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel has reached a ripe old age. It's been 1,000 years since the laying of its first stone. The millennial of the UNESCO World Heritage site and key ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel has reached a ripe old age. It’s been 1,000 years since the laying of its first stone. The millennial of the UNESCO World Heritage site and key ...

PARIS - France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel has reached a ripe old age. It's been 1,000 years since the laying of its first stone. The millennial of the UNESCO World Heritage site and key ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

PARIS (AP) — France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel has reached a ripe old age. It’s been 1,000 years since the laying of its first stone. The millennial of the UNESCO World Heritage site and key ...