In 1996, UNESCO added Canal du Midi’s waterways ... which has offered biking tours here since 1995. “Today it’s the pleasure barges leisurely working their way through the many locks ...

Toulouse, the gateway to our four-day/160-mile bike trip to the Mediterranean along the Canal du Midi, seduced us with ... Sete, our biking terminus surrounded by water was a scruffy Mediterranean ...

Perhaps you were inspired to go on your own biking adventure this summer. The Canal du Midi in the south of France is an extraordinary feat of 17th century engineering, history, and beauty and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matt Kelly’s British barge makes a big impression on the tranquil waters (and banks) of France’s Canal du Midi ...

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.