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 ...

The famous Suez Canal often receives worldwide recognition but Europe's version is no less impressive. The Canal du Midi in the south of France is an extraordinary feat of engineering, history, and ...

If the relentless and rapid e-mails and deadlines have simply become too much, we highly recommend a decompression break: renting a sleeper boat and put-putting at five miles per hour along the Canal ...

FRANCE – The Canal du Midi, entirely hand-dug and hailed as an engineering marvel on completion in 1681, offers a refreshing alternate take on French travel: a bikeable path through the towns and ...

In the south of France, a 150-mile canal stretches all the way from Toulouse, the pink-hued, charming French paradise, to the Mediterranean. The Canal du Midi, as it's named, is a feat of engineering ...

The lock door slowly opened, the water churned in a white rush and I quickly realized that we’d tied up too far forward. The easy-going lock keeper noticed my mistake and slipped my bowline from ...

Disney used the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Carcassone, a collection of villages, churches and forts, as a model for some of its theme park structures. ( Photos by Emilie C. Harting - Special ...