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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exactly 1,000 years ago this month, construction started on a magnificent island building off the coast of France that, as it rose improbably from the choppy waters of the Atlantic Ocean, would become ...

Mont-Saint-Michel, a tiny island in France, is a top fairy-tale destination famed for its Gothic abbey. Once a major pilgrimage site, Mont-Saint-Michel is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of medieval ...

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 ...

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.