Mont Saint-Michel is a rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France (Le Mont-Saint-Michel). Its pyramid-like outline has become famous the world over and thousands of tourist flock each year for a Mont St. Michel tour. It is located approximately one kilometer (just over a half-mile) off the country's north coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches. The population of the island is 41. The mount is best known for the medieval Benedictine Abbey and steepled church that occupies most of the 1km-diameter clump of rocks jutting out of the waters of the English Channel. At high tide, Mont St Michel is almost entirely separated from the mainland. Only a narrow causeway, constructed in the 1880s preserves a link to the coast. (A bridge to replace the causeway and allow the circulation of tidal waters in the bay is scheduled for completion in 2012.) Beware: the tide comes in quickly (as swiftly as a galloping horse), as Victor Hugo claimed many tourists have drowned attempting to cross the sandy bay.
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