Mont Saint-Michel: Top Photos

A medieval abbey rising impossibly from the tidal sea

Bridge leading to Mont-Saint-Michel.
The approach by bridge is the best version of arriving here. At high tide, the water comes in fast — some of the fastest tidal rises in Europe — and the island becomes what it was always meant to look like. © Lynx1211, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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