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 ...

STANDING on a small wooden platform way up in the treetops, I don’t want to make the leap. My next foothold will be another ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Damien O’Connor had not been to France for three decades, and he had only traveled to the country once before. However, between Oct. 18 and 20, O’Connor, the vice president for evangelization and ...

Seen from afar, the Mont Saint Michel looks likes a gigantic sandcastle, permanently stranded at low tide. Closer, in summer-time, it resembles Disneyland. The Mont's single, narrow, medieval street ...

Undoubtedly one of the boldest gastronomic gambles of 2025 is coming early in the year when chef Jean Imbert opens a restaurant at the top of Mont-Saint-Michel, under the aegis of the Mauviel cookware ...

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, ...