The Canal du Midi has five elements, namely the main section that connects Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) to Étang de Thau at Marseillan along the Mediterranean coast (Hérault) over a length of 240 km; the ...

More than 320 structures are dotted along the Canal du Midi, including 40 aqueducts, 90 locks, many feeder canals and France's first subterranean water tunnel.

Almost every time we drove our 15 metre canal boat into one of the small oval locks on France’s Canal du Midi, we drew a crowd. It could be our audience was made up of engineering fans there to ...

A four-night self-catered cruise on the Canal du Midi on board a Horizon 5, during the 2023 boating season, starting and finishing at Le Boat ’s base at Homps, is priced from £2,499 per boat.

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.

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 ...

Historic Dishes And Fortresses Along Canal Du Midi: Toulouse To Carcassonne If you're flying into France, starting in Toulouse is a convenient option for visiting the Canal du Midi — Toulouse ...

Houseboat on the Canal du Midi. Alamy It's summertime in southern France and we're cycling the towpath of a canal built more than a century before the bicycle was even invented. One of Europe's ...

ITINERARY To celebrate my husband's 60th birthday we met 11 friends on self-drive barges on the Canal du Midi, in the south of France, but our holiday started with six nights in Paris in a ...

The Canal Royal was renamed the Canal du Midi during the Revolution, and by 1856 it carried 111,000 metric tonnes of cargo and a million passengers a year.