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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Traveler: Rachel Dickinsen of Roseville. The scene: Mont-Saint-Michel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, seems to float above water off the coast of Normandy on the northern coast of France. The ...

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 ...

LE MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France - U.S. and allied servicemembers, World War II veterans, local dignitaries and others honored the memory of those who fought in the D-Day invasion at a ceremony at the ...

Its spectacular position, the architecture (a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic), its history – it dates back to the eighth century – and its religious legacy (though now only a dozen or so nuns and ...

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 ...