le réseau du canal du Midi, réalisé entre 1667 et 1694, constitue l'une des réalisations de génie civil les plus extraordinaires de l'ère moderne, qui ouvrit la voie à la révolution industrielle. Le ...

Boating along the Canal du Midi is surely one of life’s finer pleasures. And with the speed limit set at just 8km/h you cannot but slow down – and relax. Stretching some 240km between Toulouse ...

Crikey, I thought the QE2 was in Dubai! That is my slightly shocked reaction to being shown the boat on which we are about to negotiate the Canal du Midi. I'd naively thought, at first ...

The Canal du Midi in the south of France is an extraordinary feat of engineering, history, and beauty. This iconic waterway stretches 223 miles, linking the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean ...

A lack of water supply was the obstacle that genius Pierre-Paul Riquet overcame to construct the Canal du Midi in the 17th Century. An engineer from Béziers, his feat in its day was equivalent to ...

Eight couples, all of them from Fairbanks except for one couple from Homer and a woman from Seattle, made the trip across the Atlantic to the Canal du Midi, where the adventure really began.

42,000 plane trees which run along the historic Canal du Midi will have to be chopped down due to the spread of an infectious, incurable fungus. The site has UNESCO status and links the Atlantic ...

We sat very quietly for the next six hours. Toulouse, the gateway to our four-day/160-mile bike trip to the Mediterranean along the Canal du Midi, seduced us with cultural diversity, café life ...

This 360-km network of navigable waterways linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic through 328 structures (locks, aqueducts, bridges, tunnels, etc.) is one of the most remarkable feats of civil ...