Perched on a rocky islet in the midst of vast sandbanks exposed to powerful tides between Normandy and Brittany stand the 'Wonder of the West', a Gothic-style Benedictine abbey dedicated to the ...

France. The island has some of the most extreme tides in the world. Mont Saint Michel is a medieval island commune, complete with an abbey at the top. It's right off the coast of Normandy.

However, Normandy does have two regional airports, Aéroport de Caen-Carpiquet (CFR), which welcomes regular flights from Air France and ... southwest toward Mont-Saint-Michel and Rennes.

Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers ... its tourists who visit just 20% of its sites, such as Mont Saint Michel and Normandy's stunning cliffs of ­Étretat.