France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel is celebrating 1,000 years since the laying of its first stone.
FILE - Sheeps graze in the fields around the Mont Saint Michel, Wednesday, May 8, 2018, in western France. . It's been 1,000 years since the laying of its first stone. The millennial of the UNESCO World Heritage site and key Normandy tourism magnet is being celebrated until November with exhibits, dance shows and concerts. French President Emmanuel Macron is heading there on Monday, June 5, 2023.
Macron’s presidential advisers had said of this visit that the “walls and the eternity of the Mount” seem to carry “the notions of resistance and resilience” of the D-Day landings that are being commemorated this week in the same region. The exhibit, two years in the making, opened last month. It covers the complex process of building what is considered an architectural jewel on a rocky island linked to the mainland only by a narrow causeway at high tide.
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