One of France's most iconic landmarks, celebrates its 1,000th birthday this year. Here are five things to know about the site
Mont Saint-Michel and its bay have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979.
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The Mont Saint-Michel, one of France's most iconic landmarks, celebrates its 1,000th birthday this year.
To mark the occasion, President Emmanuel Macron on Monday was to visit the rock-top abbey-islet in Normandy, which is completely cut off by sea dozens of times a year.
Here are five things to know about the site:
In 966, a group of Benedictine monks founded a church there, with the extraordinary Gothic-style abbey perched on the pinnacle of the island following in 1023.