Mont Saint-Michel is a nearly 1,000-year-old church towering above a village, all built on a tidal island. "Obviously, it was a challenging project. Mont Saint-Michel is like a rocky cone. A granite ...

Getting there Mont Saint-Michel is accessible by car (it's roughly a four-hour drive from Paris, though traffic can be bad) as well as chartered bus or tour. Several private companies offer ...

Today, Mont-Saint-Michel is a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of France's biggest tourist attractions. Walking through the narrow streets and halls of the abbey, visitors traverse not just a ...

Mont-Saint-Michel in France is celebrating its 1,000th birthday this year. The UNESCO World Heritage site attracts about 2 million visitors a year.

The historic—and fragile—island abbey is France’s most visited site outside of Paris. As it heads into its millennium year, a new sustainable development plan aims to protect it for the future.

The countryside of the Burgundy region lies about 100 miles southeast of Paris, or about a six-hour drive from Mont-St-Michel.

Christian pilgrims and tourists are drawn to the dramatically situated Mont St-Michel, a soaring island abbey in Normandy that is completely surrounded by the sea at high tide.

France’s spectacular Mont Saint-Michel abbey is this month celebrating 1,000 years amid concerns that it’s being swamped by too many tourists.