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 ...

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 ...

Efforts are being made to include Guernsey as another stop in one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world – the St ...

MONT ST. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I love to scamper, at low tide, shoes in my hands, far from shore, across the mud flat in France’s vast Bay of Mont St. Michel. Splashing across black sand and through little puddles, I head for the ...

Any photographer can take a pretty picture of a place, but William Clift sees its timeless soul. One such place is Mont St. Michel, a tidal island connected at low tide to the coast of Normandy, ...

On the Normandy coast, herds of sheep graze near the sea, their quiet rhythm blending perfectly with the tides that surround ...