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 ...

By William Fleeson 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 ...

Commissioned by King Louis XIV and completed in 1681, the Canal du Midi was designed to bolster France's trade routes by providing a faster and safer alternative to the treacherous sea voyage ...

Eight couples, all of them from Fairbanks except for one couple from Homer and a woman from Seattle, made the trip across the Atlantic to the Canal du Midi, where the adventure really began.

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 ...

We picked up our boat from Rive de France in the little town of Colombiers on the Canal du Midi in the South of France. The port was full of what looked like pleasure boats: gleaming white 42 ...

Photos by Emilie C. Harting - Special Contributor ) My longtime dream of traveling along the Canal du Midi in southwestern France finally came true this spring on a six-night cruise on the hotel ...

The Canal du Midi is truly an engineering miracle. Built between 1666 and 1681, it served to move barrels of French wine. Previously, to get their wine across the Atlantic, French merchants ...

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 ...