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Mont St Michel calls in Ground Force

Monday, 12 Feb, 2003 0

France: World-famous attraction to get an £80 million makeover

One of France’s biggest tourist attractions is to get a makeover in an effort to ensure it still draws the crowds in decades and centuries to come.

Mont St Michel, the monastery island off the country’s north coast, is famously cut off from the mainland at high tide each day, but the building of an access causeway has led to a massive build-up of silt and sand that has effectively joined the island to the coast.

Mont St Michel attracts some 3.5 million visitors each year. Now, according to the Guardian, plans are afoot to rip up the causeway, which was built back in 1869, and construct an electronic shuttle to ferry visitors to and from the island, while the sand and silt that has built up over the years will be cleared.

If the £80 million plan goes ahead – and public opinion in the region suggests it will – it will start next year and take four years to complete.



 



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