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 ...

1,000 years have passed since construction began on France's iconic Mont-Saint-Michel. The millennium-old abbey, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is one of France's top tourist attractions outside Paris.

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 ...

MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France – While much of the world worries about how to stop sea levels from rising, engineers in this corner of France want to spend $260 million to do just the opposite: raise the ...

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 ...

Don a mixed-reality viewer and you see the sun-dappled altar under a sweeping tower of windows. Turn around, and the cathedral’s pews march off into the distance, two by two. Now, for the best part, ...

Experience Mont Saint Michel through a calm 3D aerial virtual perspective, revealing one of France’s most iconic landmarks as seen from above. From the sky, the island’s steep structure rises ...