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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. This ...
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 ...
Perched on a rocky islet in the midst of vast sandbanks exposed to powerful tides between Normandy and Brittany stand the 'Wonder of the West', a Gothic-style Benedictine abbey dedicated to the ...
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