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 ...

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 ...

The 42,000 plane trees lining France's historic Canal du Midi are being felled because of ... course from Toulouse to the port of Sete on the Mediterranean. It was five years ago that Jacques ...