- Then it was renamed Canal du Midi, the Southern Canal. The canal was built in 1666–1681, during the reign of Louis XIV, and is one of the oldest European...
- Canal du MIDI barge holiday booked through France Afloat Sept 2023. Planned as a special birthday treat to the Canal du Midi...
- A few key facts & figures about the Canal du Midi: Length: 241 kilometres (150 miles), making it one of the longest navigable canals in Europe.
- ...booking a holiday on the Canal du Midi, is that it is an open sewer, with fleets of leisure craft including unfortunately ours emptying waste directly into the canal.
- Strictly speaking, this is the end of the Canal du Midi, as the continuation to the west is the Canal de Garonne.
- Eventually, they were succeeded by tourist boats. Romantic natures and excursion amateurs will definitely appreciate walking along the Canal du Midi.
- The Canal du Midi was initially worked as an easy route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
- A man-made river, the Canal du Midi in the Occitanie region is considered one of the greatest engineering feats in France, if not the world.
- Today, the Canal du Midi and the trees that surround it are threatened by canker stain (a disease that attacks plane trees).
- A few key facts & figures about the Canal du Midi: Length: 241 kilometres (150 miles), making it one of the longest navigable canals in Europe.