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Picture of the day
Mont Saint-Michel
and its
abbey
at night. This
UNESCO World Heritage Site
is a rocky
tidal island
roughly one kilometre from the north coast of
Normandy
,
France
at the mouth of the
Couesnon River
, near
Avranches
. Mont Saint-Michel was previously connected to the mainland via a thin natural
land bridge
, which before modernization was covered at high tide and revealed at low tide.
Photo credit:
Benh Lieu Song
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