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 ...

Think of the south of France and postcard images of the lavender ... blocks within its centerpiece “Lapidary Wall.” The Canal du Midi – a 17th-century canal linking the Mediterranean and ...

Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Avec ses 360 km navigables assurant la liaison entre la Méditerranée et l'Atlantique et ses 328 ouvrages (écluses, aqueducs, ponts, tunnels, etc ...

Gunpowder was first used in 1679, to build an underground section of the Canal du Midi, a canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The tunnel was 157 meters long ...

The seemingly sleepy Occitanie area in the South of France—stretching from the ... Views are of the Canal du Midi, which was a feat of civil engineering for its time in 1666, linking the ...

On this brief stopover, we opted to pedal along the beaches and around the romantic Gothic and Bohemian quarters before tackling our transportation options to Toulouse, France. French trains ...