The Canal du Midi traverses the Occitanie region and gives cyclists of all skill levels access to parts of France that are rich in lore, yet sometimes passed over by visitors. By William Fleeson ...

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 ...

Among the featured tour routes is southern France’s historic Canal du Midi, which flows from Toulouse through the Languedoc-Roussillon, one of France’s largest wine regions. Travelers can ...

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 ...

Where life slips into a lower gear and scenes of southern France slip by like a magic lantern: drowsy villages, riverside markets, fields of corn, lavender, poppies and sunflowers. Stretching for ...

Boats berthed on the bottom of the Canal du Midi after water was drained for maintenance work in November, 2019. (Photo by ERIC CABANIS / AFP) As drought forces the reopening of the Canal du Midi ...